Maximus

Holy Martyr Maximus was a reader of the Church and came from Ozovia. He suffered in the time of the emperors Maximian and Diocletian, together with the readers Dadas and Quintillian. In the persecution they were arrested, cruelly beaten and thrown into prison again, where the pagans tried in many ways to make them deny Christ. They remained faithful and received the crown of martyrdom, being beheaded. The Christians gathered their relics with devotion and took them to Constantinople, to the church of the Mother of God in the Viglentiou quarter, where their synaxis was also held. They are remembered on 13 April, together with other martyrs of the day.