14 April - Maximus, a Christian martyr, was put to death and buried in the cemetery of Pretextat la via Appia in Rome. He is celebrated on 14 April together with the two other saints associated with his story, Valerian and Tiburce.

Maximus was a wealthy merchant who lived in Asia Minor. He later became secretary or clerk to the Roman prefect Amachius. When two young Christians, Tiburce and Valerian, were condemned to be beheaded for offering Roman burials to Christian martyrs, Maximus was asked to lead them to their place of execution. Moved by their faith and strong conviction, Maxime asks to be educated. The two brothers then implore him to convince the executioners to postpone the execution until the following day and take them to his house where they initiate him to the Christian faith. Maxime is baptized the same day by Urbain who comes to join them in secret.

Maximus, then declaring himself a Christian like several other servants of Almachius and having spread the Christian faith, was held responsible for many conversions to the religion of Christ. They were condemned to death. After the ordeal of the lead-lined easel and whip, Maximus, who still did not want to recant, was put to death by stoning, becoming a martyr of Christ. Saint Cecilia obtained the permission, rarely granted to Christians, to bury them in a tomb on the Appian Way and not in the catacombs, those underground cemeteries usually reserved for Christian martyrs.