Maxima

Maxima was, in the time of the Arian Vandal king Genseric, a Christian slave woman in Africa who brought her fellow slaves Martinian and Saturian to faith in Christ. The Roman Martyrology, on 16 October, says that the two, with two brothers of theirs, were beaten with heavy clubs and torn to the bone, but their wounds healed overnight, so they were sent into exile. There they turned many barbarians to the faith, obtained from the bishop of Rome a priest and helpers for baptism, and finally were condemned to die dragged through thorns behind running chariots.

Maxima, miraculously delivered after many trials, became superior of a large monastery of virgins, where she ended her days in peace. Commemorated on 16 October, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.