Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
April 30
June 10
Martyr
Maximus was a merchant in Asia. Under Decius's edicts he openly declared himself a Christian and was brought before Optimus, the proconsul of Asia.
Asked his condition, he said, 'I am born free, but am the slave of Jesus Christ.' Told to sacrifice or die in torments, he answered that this had always been his desire, and that he had come out in public for that very reason. Butler gives 251; Baring-Gould, the text on this page, gives about 250. The sources differ.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on April 30 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: June 10
Traditional: April 30
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.
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.
