Maximian of Bagai

Maximian of Bagai was, in the time of Saint Augustine, bishop of Bagai (now Ksar-⁠Bagai in Algeria), where he is documented between 402 and 405. He had been a Donatist and returned to the Catholic Church. His presence at Bagai stirred up trouble from the Donatists, so he resigned, accepted by the council of Milevis on 27 August 402, but he remained in the see and was still there in 404. The Donatists attacked him, seized him and threw him from a tower; the bishop survived, but his body was disfigured. He then went to Italy, where his wounds impressed those who saw him. After that nothing more is known of him. His existence is known from the works and letters of Saint Augustine.

Cesare Baronio introduced his cult into the Roman Martyrology, on 3 October. A confessor of the faith, a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.