The life of Quadratus and Companions
He studied and became a physician, but preferred solitude and prayer in the hills, and in time gathered a circle of friends and disciples who came to him for instruction in the faith, among them Cyprian, Dionysius, Anectus, Paul, and Crescens.
When a new persecution arose under the emperor Decius, Quadratus and his companions were arrested and brought before the governor Jason. Quadratus, the eldest, spoke for the group and would not be moved by torture, urging the others to remain steadfast; unable to break their resolve even by throwing them to wild beasts, who would not touch them, the authorities finally had them dragged through the city and beheaded. A spring was afterward said to have appeared at the place of their death, and a church was built there in their memory. Little else beyond this account has survived about the six men's lives, and this Quadratus should not be confused with the second-century Christian apologist of the same name.
