Quintian of Rodez

Saint Quintian of Rodez (in Latin Quintianus, in French Quintien) was bishop of Rodez and then of Clermont-⁠Ferrand in Gaul in the sixth century and reposed around 525. He took part in the councils of Agde (508) and Orléans (511).

According to tradition he was a native of Africa and a priest of Carthage, who fled to France from the persecution of the Vandals. After the death of Bishop Amantius (Amans) in 487 he succeeded him in the see of Rodez. In the war between the Franks and the Visigoths he zealously supported Clovis I; to escape the persecution of the Arian Visigoths he fled from Rodez to Auvergne, where Bishop Euphrasius received him kindly. King Theodoric I appointed him successor to Bishop Sidonius Apollinaris (the grandson of the famous one) at Clermont, and he shepherded there until his death on 13 November 525 or 526.

His feast is kept on 13 November, except at Rodez, where it is kept on 14 June; the Roman Martyrology has him on both dates. The Orthodox calendar commemorates him on 14 June, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.