Saint Quiriacus (Cyriacus) of Trier

Saint Quiriacus served as an altar server for Saint Maximin. Among other pious practices, he was accustomed to frequently visiting all the monasteries and oratories. This holy man, wishing to avoid all vainglory, deemed it best to choose the nighttime for these exercises. Some clerics, jealous of his virtues, did not delay in incriminating his conduct; they went so far as to accuse him of a shameful act before Saint Maximin. The holy bishop, who had heard these accusations with sorrow, suspended his judgment and asked God to enlighten him on a matter so uncertain in his eyes. One day, at the moment when the bishop was preparing to celebrate the holy mysteries, and when Quiriacus was standing humbly behind the church door, an angel appeared to the Pontiff and warned him that his servant was innocent. "These things," says Sigehard, author of the book of the miracles of Saint Maximin, "these things spread by the powerful voice of fame among all ancient peoples, and transmitted to us, deserve to find a place here; they are true; the paintings in the churches attest to it, and we have seen, in the old church of Saint-Quiriacus, in the crypt raised over his tomb, one of these paintings dating back to the highest antiquity and already almost erased by time."