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November 19 · Priest, Martyr

St. Maximus

St. Maximus

Traditional feast

November 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

August 13 (also listed: January 21)
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Represents

Priest
Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on November 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, Ado, Notker, &c. Authority Maximus, a Roman priest, was arrested in the persecution of Decius. He confessed Christ in the midst of cruel tortures, and was then sent back to prison. Having been released, he fell into the schism of Novatus, but the letters of S. Dionysius of Alexandria and of S. Cyprian of Carthage were the means of bringing him back to Catholic unity. He is thought to have suffered under Valerian. A certain Maximus was then decapitated on the Appian Way, and it may have been the same man. He was buried near S. Sixtus.

Feast days

Feast: August 13
Traditional: November 19

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Maximus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Pontianus, Pope

St. Pontianus

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St. Faustus

November 19 · Martyr
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St. Barlaam

November 19 · Martyr
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Sources & notes

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). 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.