Quintillani were a sect of Montanists who ap- peared in Phrygiaabonl 189. They were bo called from their prophetess, Quintilla of Carthage. < me ofthe pe- culiar tenets of this strange seel was thai women are by til itled to perform episcopal and other ministerial amies. They attributed extraordinary gifts to Eve, in consequence of her having eaten of the for- bidden tree, and quoted the history of Miriam, and the four daughters '•( Philip, u ho were prophetesses, in vin- dication of l heir proceedings. In their assemblies vir- gins appeared in white robes, personating prophetesses. The errors of this seel were condemned in the Council of Laodicea in 320. Tertullian charges the Quintillani
with having opposed baptism, and wrote a work on that subject.
Quintillians. See Quintillani.
Quintin Matsys, sometimes called the Farriarof intwerp, was famous for having been transformed from a blacksmith to a painter by the force oi love. He had loll.. wed the trade of a blacksmith and farrier near twen- ty years, when, falling in love with a painter's daughter, who was very handsome, and disliked nothing in him but his profession, he quitted his trade and bi took him- self to painting, in which art, assisted by a good natural taste, a master, and the power ol love into the bargain, he made a very uncommon and surprising progn Hi was a painstaking, diligent imitator of ordinary life, and much better at representing the defects than the beau- tiesol nature. One of his best pieces is a Descent from theCrosSjia the chapel at the Cathedral of Antwerp, for which, and a multitude of other histories and portraits, he gained many admirers, especially for his laborious neatness, which, in truth, was the principal pari of his character. He died in L529. His works are dispersed throughout Europe.
Quin'tus Memniius (2 Mace. xi,34 i. Sei Mim-
MIC8.
Qui procedis as OTtroqi e (who proceedest from both, i. e. from the Father and the Son) is the beginning of a sequence of Adam of St. Victor to the Holy Spirit, omitted entirely by the compilers of Songs ofth* Spirit. The first verse runs thus in the original : "Qui procedis ah ntroque, Gem tore, Geni toque, Pariter, Paraclite, Redde lingnas eloqnentes, Fac ferveutes in te mentes Flamma tua divite." There is an English translation, by P. S.Worsley, in the Lyra Myslica, p. 170 sq., and by Caswall, in Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated, p. 136 sq. German translations are given, together with the original, in Konigsfeld, Lateinische Hymnen, ii, 181 sq.; Simrock, Lauda Sion, p. 209 sq. ; Bassler, Auswahl allchrisilicher Lieder, p. Ill, 221. See Trench, Sacred Latin Poetry, p. 187; Daniel, Thesaurus Hymnol.ii,73; Cautier. .l./uw ili S.Victor,i, 115; Rambacb, A nthologu chistlicher Ge- sange,j>. 293; Fortlage, Gesangt chrisilicher I 401. (B. P.)
Quirenus. See Ci rexu 3.
Quirinalia, a festival celebrated among the ancient Romans in honor of Quirinus. It was kept on Feb. 17, being the day on which Romulus, who was called Qui- rinus, was said to have been carried up t.. heaven.
Quiiini. See Qi i ■ki.ni.
Quirk is an architectural term for a small acute channel or recess much used in mouldings.
Quiroga, Joseph, a Spanish Jesuit, was bom at Lug... in Galicia, and distinguished himself as a mis- sionary in America. During his residence here he col- lected much information respecting the territories he \ Cited, and on his return to Europe published his trav- els. He died in 1784
Quisqueja. This island. one of the Greal Antilles, now called St, Domingo »r Hayti, was, at the time ofthe discovery of this part ofthe world, inhabited bj a peace- able and harmless population, wb.. were soon annihi- lated bj Spanish cruelty. They adored the Bun (Tona- tiks) and the moon (Tona) Both luminaries resided at first on the earth, in the island of Quisqueja, of course, where a splendid cave was their mansion. Finally, they went toTurii (the heavens), thence to diffuse their light over the world. The cave is still shown ; it bas a diam- eter of 200 feet, and is 130 feet high. The purity of its lorui bet. .kens the interference of human art. The tig- ures of gods, genii, guardian spirits, are engm ed in the walls. In a large number of places idols must have stood in ancient times. This supposition is in accordance
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with the scanty traditions that have reached us. More than a thousand idols were distributed at intervals in the interior (says the tradition), and the two largest, rep- resenting the sun and moon, stood at the entrance. This seems to have been the only temple of Quisqueja, for multitudes of worshippers flocked to it every day from all parts of the island. They believed that their coun- try was the cradle of the human race. The first men were shut up in two caves of the Kauta mountain, and there watched by a giant. The jailer, having once vent- ured out of this recess, was changed into stone by the sun, whose rays were too powerful for him. The cap- tive men, thus liberated, came forth in their turn. Many were those who shared the giant's fate, being trans- formed into animals, stones, or plants. Little by little those denizens of darkness became used to the light of day. The souls of men repair to the mountains which cover the middle part of the island, and there, in a cool country, rich in springs, they feed on the savor}' fruit of the memmey-tree, called by the Spaniards apricots of St. Domingo. The living men piously abstain from touching those fruits, so as not to deprive the souls of their subsistence.