Quiricus ( ca, Quirze), a churchman and well-connected man of letters, was the

bishop of Barcelona The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona is a Latin rite Catholic metropolitan archbishopric in northeastern Spain's Catalonia region. The cathedral archiepiscopal see is a Minor basilica: Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de la Santa Creu i ...

from 648 until about 667 during the Visigothic period. Quiricus wrote a hymn in honour of Saint Eulalia. The hymn ''Barchinon laete Cucufate vernans'', in honour of

Saint Cucuphas Saint Cucuphas (also ''Cucufas'' or ''Qaqophas'', ca, Cugat, Culgat, Cougat, es, Cucufate, Cucufato, Cocoba(s), french: Cucuphat, Cucufa, Cucuphat, Quiquenfat, gl, Covade, Cobad, oc, Cophan, ast, Cucao) is a martyr of Spain. His feast day ...

(Cugat), was probably also composed by him. At Quiricus' request,

Taio, Bishop of Zaragoza Taius (''Taio, Tago, Tajo, Tajón, Tayon'') (c. 600—c. 683) was a bishop of Zaragoza during the Visigoths, Visigothic period, from 651-664, succeeding his teacher Saint Braulius. His surname was Samuel (Samuhel). Taius, like Braulius and Bishop ...

, began compiling an anthology of extracts from the work of

Gregory the Great Pope Gregory I ( la, Gregorius I; – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregori ...

in 653. In 654, progress on the compilation was slowed by the revolt of

Froia Froia was a Visigothic nobleman, probably a count, who rebelled and tried to seize the kingship in 653, either in the final weeks of the reign of Chindasuinth or in the opening weeks of that of his son, Reccesuinth. He had the support of the Basqu ...

and the invasion of the

Basques The Basques ( or ; eu, euskaldunak ; es, vascos ; french: basques ) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians. Bas ...

. Archbishop

Ildefonsus of Toledo Ildefonsus or Ildephonsus (rarely ''Ildephoses'' or ''Ildefonse''; Spanish: San Ildefonso; c. 8 December 607 – 23 January 667) was a scholar and theologian who served as the metropolitan Bishop of Toledo for the last decade of his life. His ...

dedicated his treatise on the

perpetual virginity of Mary The perpetual virginity of Mary is a Christian doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a virgin before, during and after the birth of Christ. In Western Christianity, the Catholic Church adheres to the doctrine, as do some Lutherans, Anglica ...

(''De perpetua virginitate'') to Quiricus. Quiricus of Barcelona may be identical to the Quiricus of Toledo who appears as bishop there from about 670 until his death in 680.Collins, ''Visigothic Spain'', 100.

Sources

*Anglès, Higini
"Hispanic Musical Culture from the 6th to the 14th Century."
''The Musical Quarterly'', Vol. 26, No. 4. (Oct., 1940), pp. 494–528. *

Collins, Roger Roger J. H. Collins (born September 2, 1949) is an English medievalist, currently an honorary fellow in history at the University of Edinburgh. Collins studied at the University of Oxford ( Queen's and Saint Cross Colleges) under Peter Brown ...

. ''Visigothic Spain, 409–711''. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. . *

Thompson, E. A. Edward Arthur Thompson (22 May 1914 – 1 January 1994) was an Irish-born British Marxist historian of classics and medieval studies. He was professor and director of the classics department at the University of Nottingham from 1948 to 197 ...

''The Goths in Spain''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

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