Quintian (Quinctianus), Lucius and Julian (Julianus) are venerated as saints and martyrs by the

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. According to the ''Roman Martyrology'', they were inhabitants of

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who were killed during the persecutions of the

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king

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(476–484 AD), who was an Arian.Benedictine Monks, ''Book of the Saints'' (Published by Kessinger Publishing, 2003), 227. However, the date of their martyrdom may be conjectural. They are the only ones named in a group of sixteen martyrs, which included several women. According to the ''

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'', Quinctianus was a bishop and was probably the same person as a bishop named ''Urcitanus''. The ''

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'' mentions other

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n martyrs of this same name on other

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; however, no other information is included for the martyrs placed under the different feast days. The ''Great Synaxaristes of the Orthodox Church'' mentions that saints Quintianus, Lucius and Julianus were martyred together with nineteen other Christians.

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