[2] The prefect left Amiens to go to Reims, the capital of Gallia Belgica, where he wanted Quentin judged.

But, on the way, in a town named Augusta Veromanduorum (now Saint-Quentin, Aisne), Rictiovarus decided to interrupt his journey and pass sentence: Quentin was tortured again, then beheaded and thrown by the soldiers into the marshes around the Somme.

[3] Five years later, a blind woman named Eusebia, born of a senatorial family, came from Rome (following a divine order) and miraculously discovered the body,[2] and a certain blind woman recovered her sight by the sacred relics.

When the relics were discovered, together with the great nails with which the body had been pierced, Eligius distributed these nails, the teeth, and hair in other places, and enclosed the rest of the sacred treasure in a rich shrine of his own work, which he placed behind the high altar.

[3] Eligius distributed the nails with which Quentin's body had been pierced, as well as some of his teeth and hair.