A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 34 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
S. Montanus was a priest at Sirmium, in Pannonia, and Maxima was his wife. They were drowned for the faith either in a river or in a lake; probably during the persecution of Maximian.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
S. Montanus was a priest at Sirmium, in Pannonia [a Roman province roughly covering western Hungary and parts of Austria and Croatia], and Maxima was his wife. They were drowned for the faith either in a river or in a lake; probably during the persecution of Maximian [Diocletian’s co-emperor in the West, 286–305].
Feast: March 26
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Montanus and Maxima's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
