Maximus, Claudius, Praepedigna and Their Sons

Holy Martyrs Maximus, Claudius, Praepedigna and Their Sons suffered at Ostia, the port of Rome, in the time of the emperor Diocletian, so at the end of the third century or the beginning of the fourth.

According to the Martyrology of Usuard, from the ninth century, they were people of very noble birth: Maximus, Claudius, his wife Praepedigna, and their two sons. They were seized by order of Diocletian, taken into exile and then burned in fire, offering to God the sweet-⁠smelling sacrifice of martyrdom. Their commemoration is kept on 18 February in the Western calendar. They are saints of the undivided Church, honoured in the West, without synodal canonization.