Quinibertus
Acta Sanctorum, May 18
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ON SAINT QUINIBERTUS

MONK IN HAINAUT.

HISTORICAL COMMENTARY.

The notice from Molanus: the Quercetan Priory under the Maricolian Abbot.

Quinibertus, monk in Hainaut (St.)

G. H.

John Molanus in his Additions to Usuard,
in the year MDLXVIII printed, these things writes
on this XVIII of May: Near the monastery,
which is called Maricolus, of S. Quinibertus
the Confessor, who with innumerable miracles
in our days shone. The same Molanus, in the same
Additions twice republished, [The notice published by Molanus:] this only has: At Quercetum
of S. Quinibertus the Confessor, of whom in the Index
of the Saints of Belgium the same things somewhat more fully he draws out: S. Quinibertus
the Confessor, was Prior in Salesium near Quercetum,
in the Priory of the Maricolians: where with very many
he shone miracles. His feast is observed there & at Maricolus
on the day XVIII of May. The places are of the diocese of Cambrai
in Hainaut. Finally in the Birthdays of the Saints
of Belgium, from a rescript of Lord Jacobus de Barlaymont, Benedictine
of Maricolus, these things he reports: At Quercetum of S. Quinibertus
the Confessor, who is a Maricolian Saint:
for the place of rest was of the Priory of the Maricolians: in
which also he is thought to have dwelt. About him written I received
from Maricolus: About B. Quinibertus all things to us are uncertain,
except the bare name, inserted in our
Calendars under the solemnity of a middle feast. A little wooden chest,
in which his bones & relics they believe to be contained
the natives, at the village which commonly we call Serlesches,
in our age also with frequent miracles of healings
shone forth, as some still surviving are authors.
But the props, supports & vehicles of those healed,
which to the memory of the benefits obtained
had been left with the temple itself, by the crime of the Franks, by a foul
fire perished. Thus far Molanus, whom follow
[& transcribed by others.] Canisius in the Germanic Martyrology, Wion, Dorganius,
Menardus, Bucelinus in the Benedictine Martyrologies, Daurotius
in the Calendar, Ferrarius in the general Catalog. But
Miraeus in the Belgian Fasti these things writes: S. Quinibertus
the Confessor is venerated by the Benedictines in Hainaut monks
of Lessies, & rests in the village Serlesches,
with frequent miracles of healings formerly renowned. These things there. But
I suspect that instead of "of Lessies" monks, who about him nothing
know, by some lapse of memory intruded, the Maricolians
should be put back. Here however Saussay, no further examination
applied, by that levity with which the Gallican Martyrology
as a youth he patched together, dared to write, that the deposition
of S. Quinibertus the monk with annual veneration is venerated
at Maricolus, Quercetum & Lessies: who of Salesium formerly
a little ascetery the moderator, great there published of holy
conversation monuments; & after he went to
glory, in the Serleschian village entombed, frequent of healings
to his suppliants furnished long ago, by his precious
intercession with God, benefits. These things he. But
the Maricolian monastery was founded by S. Humbert,
about the year DCLXXX having died on XXV March: to which
day his Acts we gave. But how long after was erected
the Priory near Quercetum, & at what time there
lived S. Quinibertus, is not clear. It appears that Molanus
used Salesium for Sarlescium in the Index of the Saints
of Belgium, & hence two places were made for Saussay,
the little monastery Salesium & the village Seleschum:
but that nothing certain remains, except the cult of the Relics
& the memory of sanctity; by which titles a place to him in this
work we give.
