Maximus of Carthage

Maximus of Carthage was a youth, hardly more than a boy, a martyr at Carthage under the Arian Vandal king Huneric, in 483 or 484. He was the youngest of the seven brothers arrested with Abbot Liberatus: the others were the deacon Boniface, the subdeacons Servus and Rusticus, and the monks Rogatus and Septimus. Brought to Carthage, they were tortured to make them accept Arianism; when they refused, they were nailed to boards on a ship prepared for timber, and the ship was set on fire. The ship would not burn, so they were killed with blows of oars. He is commemorated on 2 July, in the Western calendar (new style). A saint of the undivided Church, venerated chiefly in the West.