Maximilian

Holy Martyr Maximilian of Antioch was a soldier and received martyrdom at Antioch, together with his companion Bonosus, of the Herculean cohort. They were standard-⁠bearers and, in that service, refused to remove the monogram of Christ from the standard as Julian the Apostate had ordered. Julian commanded them to replace it with images of idols, and when they refused he tortured and beheaded them. Some sources place their death around 353, others in the time of Julian, in 361-363, so the date is uncertain. Some calendars commemorate him on 21 August, while a few martyrologies reckon the day of their martyrdom as 21 September.