St. Maximus of Aix

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

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June 8 · Bishop

St. Maximus of Aix

St. Maximus of Aix

A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Traditional feast

June 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 29
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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Bishop

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

Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies.] S. Maximus, it is pretended, was one of the disciples of our Blessed Lord, who founded the bishopric of Aix, in Provence. There is not, however, the smallest evidence to support this assertion.

Feast days

Feast: May 29
Traditional: June 8

Nine days · Free

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

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Ettringen St. Maximin und Anna152.JPG · GFreihalter · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: GFreihalter, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.