Maximian of Syracuse

Saint Maximian of Syracuse was born in Sicily and was a monk at the monastery of Saint Andrew on the Coelian Hill in Rome, together with Saint Gregory the Great. He served as the pope's envoy in Constantinople. Recalled to Rome, he finally became bishop of Syracuse in Sicily, and he reposed in the year 594.

He is commemorated on 9 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar. The calendar calls him venerable, as he belonged to the Benedictine order.