Martyr Quadratus and his Companions at Corinth

Quadratus and his four companions — Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, and Paul — were Christians of Corinth in the middle of the third century, born during a period of persecution at Corinth when their mothers had hidden in the surrounding forests to give birth and raise their children in secret. They had grown up together in the wilderness as a small group of Christian children whose mothers had taught them the faith and the prayers.

When they reached early manhood, the persecution had subsided and the surviving Christians had begun returning to the city. The five came down from the wilderness to find their faith and to be baptized into the surviving congregation. The renewal of the persecution under Decius (around 250) took them at this point — the city's governor Jason heard of the five and ordered them arrested, examined, and on their refusal to sacrifice, beheaded together.

The synaxarion records that their constancy under examination drew further Christians of Corinth from concealment to share their fate. Their joint feast falls on March 10.