According to the legendary
Acts of the martyrs
Saint Maris and
Saint Martha, a Roman martyr Quirinus (Cyrinus) was buried in the
Catacomb of Pontian. However, the Itineraries to the graves of the Roman martyrs do not mention him. His legend was later connected with
Tegernsee Abbey in
Bavaria, where his relics had been
translated in the eighth century, during the reign of King
Pippin and
Pope Zacharias. says "... it is a perfectly well established fact that the founders of the abbey obtained the relics of St. Quirinus, a Roman martyr, from
Pope St. Paul I (757-67), not from Pope Zacharias (741-52), and that these relics were translated from Rome to Tegernsee in the second half of the eighth century and were placed in the Church of Our Saviour, the first church of Tegernsee." ==Veneration==