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The first of theChristianapologists. He is said byEusebius (Chron. ad ann. Abrah. 2041, 124 A.D.) to have been adisciple of theApostles (auditor apostolorum). He addressed a discourse to theEmperor Hadrian containing an apology for theChristian religion, during a visit which the latter made toAthens in 124 or 125. With the exception of a short passage quoted byEusebius (Church History IV.3), this apology has entirely disappeared.Eusebius states (Chron.) incorrectly, however, that the appeal of Quadratus moved theemperor to issue a favourable edict. Because of the similarity of name some scholars have concluded (e.g. Bardenhewer, "Patrology", p. 40) that Quadratus theapologist is the sameperson as Quadratus, a prophet mentioned elsewhere byEusebius (Church History III.37). The evidence, however, is too slight to be convincing. The later references to Quadratus inJerome and themartyrologies are all based onEusebius or are arbitrary enlargements of his account.
ROUTH, Reliquiæ Sacræ, I (Oxford, 1846), 69-79; HARNACK, Ueberlieferung der griech. Apologetem, 103; Gesch. d. altchrist. Liter., I, 95; II, 269-71; BARDENHEWER, Patrology, tr. SHAHAN (St. Louis, 1908).
APA citation.Healy, P.(1911).Quadratus. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12589b.htm
MLA citation.Healy, Patrick."Quadratus."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 12.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1911.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12589b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Wm Stuart French, Jr.Dedicated to M.P. French.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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