Saint Quintus

Who they were

Little is known of Quarto and Quinto, two saints of the 4th century buried in Rome along the Via Latina. They may have been two bishops of Capua who died as martyrs in Rome, certainly after the year 269. Seventh-century itineraries place their tomb in the church of Saints Gordian and Epimachus.

The earliest record of them is the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, which marks their feast on 10 May at a site called 'ad centum aulas' on the Via Latina. A later, unsupported tradition held that their bodies were moved to Capua, after a mosaic there was found to depict two saints of the same names; whether those Capuan saints are the same as the Roman martyrs remains uncertain.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

One of two little-known 4th-century martyrs buried in Rome on the Via Latina; commemorated together on 10 May.