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St. Quadratus
Christian saint
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St. Quadratus (flourished 2nd century; feast day May 26) was the earliest known Apologist for Christianity. With only a fragment of his Apology for Christianity still extant, preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the 4th-century scholar Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus has not been clearly identified. Addressed from Asia Minor to the Roman emperor Hadrian during a persecution either in 124 or 129, the Apology is thought to have been written by a disciple of the early 2nd-century Eastern Church Fathers St. Ignatius of Antioch and St. Polycarp of Smyrna. The 5th-century biblical scholar St. Jerome erroneously identified the author with ...(100 of 269 words)