Maximin of Trier

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Maximin (born at Silly near

Maximin was interred in the cemetery outside the northern gate of Trier, where his remains were joined by later bishops in the multi-chambered crypt of a church dedicated to John the Evangelist, later rededicated as St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier. Gregory of Tours^[4] already attests to the cult of Maximin in the church of Saint John Evangelist and the cult offered at his grave. The Abbey – destroyed by Normans in 882, and rebuilt, then entirely re-built in the 1680s, secularised in 1802, bombed in World War II and since largely demolished – was one of the oldest in western Europe.

In iconology Maximin was portrayed as a bishop, with a book, model of a church, and, borrowing from the legend of Corbinian, a bear carrying Maximin's travelling pack. As a patron, Maximin was invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains. His cultus was strongest in the region around Trier and in Alsace.

Medieval legend conflated him with

• Saint Maximin of Trier, patron saint archive

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