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39: 128:. He also gave orders to sprinkle all the foodstuffs in the marketplace and the water in the wells with blood offered to idols. Juventius and his colleague Maximinus (also reported as Maximos or Maximus) let fall at a banquet comments on the emperor's laws against the Christians, "Does life make any sense nowadays? All things holy are despoiled. Our faith in the Lord of Creation is treated with contempt and disgrace. Wherever one is, one inhales the ugly smell of animal fat and sacrificial meat. Nowhere can one find any fresh air." 284: 219: 142:
wrote a panegyric concerning them. Chrysostom makes the point that they were executed in the middle of the night on a charge of high treason, as Julian did not want to make martyrs of them by suggesting they died because of their faith. The Roman historian
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was based on an earlier lost passion of Juventinus and Maximinus. The author took material from the stories of martyrs of Julian's time rather than that of Galerius.
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Being informed of this, the emperor sent for them, but could not persuade them to retract what they had said, nor to sacrifice to the gods. According to the
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The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity
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Index

Juventinus
Juventinus Albius Ovidius
Juventius of Pavia

Christian martyrs
imperial guard
Emperor Julian
Catholicism
Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast
Sassanid Empire
Antioch
Roman Martyrology
John Chrysostom
Ammianus Marcellinus
Gregory of Nazianzus
Socrates of Constantinople
Sergius and Bacchus



Teitler, H. C., The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against Christianity, Oxford University Press, 2017
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9780190626525


Butler, Alban. "St. Juventinus and St. Maximinus, Martyrs", The Lives of the Saints. 1866
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"Martyr Juventinus at Antioch", Orthodox Church in America
Juventinus at Patron Saints Index

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