Juventinus and Maximinus
Saints Juventinus (or Juventius) and Maximinus (died 29 January 363)
Saints Juventius and Maximus | |
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Saints, Martyrs | |
Venerated in | Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Church |
Feast | 25 January (Western Christianity) 9 October (Eastern Orthodoxy) |
Before starting his campaign against the
Being informed of this, the emperor sent for them, but could not persuade them to retract what they had said, nor to sacrifice to the gods. According to the Roman Martyrology, Julian had them stripped of their properties, beaten and beheaded.
Saint John Chrysostom wrote a panegyric concerning them.[2] Chrysostom makes the point that they were executed in the middle of the night on a charge of high treason, as Julian did not want to make martyrs of them by suggesting they died because of their faith. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus makes no mention of Juventinus and Maximinus, nor does Gregory of Nazianzus or church historian Socrates of Constantinople.[1]
The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus was based on an earlier lost passion of Juventinus and Maximinus. The author took material from the stories of martyrs of Julian's time rather than that of Galerius.[4]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780190626525
- ^ a b Butler, Alban. "St. Juventinus and St. Maximinus, Martyrs", The Lives of the Saints. 1866 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "Martyr Juventinus at Antioch", Orthodox Church in America
- ^ Pio Franchi de' Cavalieri, Scritti agiografici, Volume I (1893-1900)