Quirinus

Saint Quirinus of Malmedy was a priest and received martyrdom, in the first half of the fourth century according to some sources. According to an eleventh-⁠century passio, he went from Rome to Gaul with the legendary bishop Nicasius of Rouen, and they preached in the Vexin; for this reason Quirinus is sometimes called Quirinus of Vexin or of Rouen. Tradition names Gasny, in the present department of Eure, as the place where he was beheaded.

His bones are said to have been raised in 872 and, in the same century, brought to Malmedy, where Abbot Poppo raised them to the altar again in 1042. Saint Quirinus is venerated, besides Normandy, especially in the Ardennes and along the Meuse, between Malmedy and its surroundings. He is venerated in the Catholic Church.