Maxima of Rome () was a slave and friend of
Saint Ansanus of Siena. She was
martyr
A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...
ed by being beaten to death in the persecutions of
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles ...
, circa 304. Locally recognized as saint, her feast day is September 2.
Martyrology
References
Italian saints
4th-century Christian saints
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