Maximus of Rome

Holy Hieromartyr Maximus of Rome, a priest, is named in the list of the twenty martyrs who suffered in the third century with the holy virgin Chrysia, beside the Holy Hieromartyr Hippolytus, Censorinus and Sabinus. The Azbyka page includes him as "the presbyter Maximus", with no other detail about him.

The emperor Claudius II (268-270) was reigning when Censorinus, the first among the dignitaries, was denounced and imprisoned for his faith in Christ. In prison he raised a dead man in the Name of the Lord, and twenty soldiers, the guards, believed and were beheaded with him. The virgin Chrysia, questioned, confessed herself a Christian and after cruel tortures was drowned. Sabinus was beaten with a hammer, hung from a tree and burned. With Chrysia died Philicles, Maximus, Herculinus, Venerius, Styracinus, Mina, Commodus, Hermes, Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprian, Theodore, Tribunus, the presbyter Maximus, the deacon Archelaus and the bishop Cyrinus. Hippolytus, bishop of Ostia, who came to court in his old age, rebuked the tormentor for his cruelty and was bound and thrown into the sea.

They are commemorated on 12 February, in the new style. The name of the presbyter Maximus is not in today's Menologion of the Russian Church.