Portal:Catholic Church/Patron Archive/May 29 2007

Saint Maximin (born at Silly near Poitiers; — Poitiers 12 September 346 was the fifth bishop of Trier, according to the list provided by the diocese's website, taking his seat in 341/342 an opponent of Arianism at the courts of Constantine II and Constans, who harboured as an honored guest Athanasius twice during his exile from Alexandria, in 336-37, before he was bishop, and again in 343. In the Arian controversy he had begun in the party of Paul of Constantinople; however, he took part in the synod of Sardica convoked by Pope Julius II (ca. 342), and when four Arian bishops consequently came from Antioch to Trier with the purpose of winning Emperor Constans to their side, Maximinus refused to receive them and induced the emperor to reject their proposals.

After his death, Gregory of Tours already attests to the cult of Maximin in the church of Saint John Evangelist (later St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier) in the cemetery north of Trier and the cult offered at his grave. The Abbey &mdash; re-built in the 1680s, secularised in 1802, bombed in World War II and since largely demolished &mdash; was one of the oldest in western Europe.

Aattributes: tober of a bishop; bear at his side to carry his things.

Patronage:Trier, dangers of the sea, protection against rain, protection against perjury

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