31st October - Quentin would have been originally from Rome, sent to Northern Gaul, just like his contemporaries Saints Crepin and Crepinians, in the second half of the 3rd century, to evangelise him.

Quentin would have been the son of Senator Zénon. He left Rome and arrived in Gaul Belgium with twelve companions including Lucien who would have known martyrdom near Beauvais. Quentin went to Amiens where he preached the Gospel, but his fame would have attracted the attention of the vicar of the Roman prefect Rictiovarus. Arrested, he was tortured, but refused to renounce his faith. The prefect then decided to take him to Reims, the capital of Belgian Gaul, to put him on trial. But, on the way, arriving in a town called Augusta Viromanduorum, Quentin, miraculously escaped, resumed his preaching. Rictiovarus then decided to end it: Quentin was tortured again, then beheaded. His body was thrown by the Roman soldiers in the marshes which surround the Somme, completely secret.