St. Quadratus

St. Quadratus (flourished 2nd century; feast day May 26) was the earliest known Apologist for Christianity. With only a fragment of his Apology for Christianity still extant, preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the 4th-century scholar Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus has not been clearly identified. Addressed from Asia Minor to the Roman emperor Hadrian during a persecution either in 124 or 129, the Apology is thought to have been written by a disciple of the...