Name
Iuventinus and Maximinus, soldiers and martyrs of Antioch under the emperor Julian
Saint ID
S00053
Number in BH
BHG 975
Reported Death Not Before
361
Reported Death Not After
363
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Soldiers
| ID | Title | E00069 | John Chrysostom composes a sermon on *Ioventinos/Iuventinus and Maximinos (soldiers and martyrs under Julian, S00053), which he delivers during their feast in Antioch on the Orontes (north Syria), celebrated shortly after that of *Babylas (bishop and martyr of Antioch, S00061). He recounts the saints’ martyrdom and the collection of their bodies, and encourages the veneration of their relics. Written in Greek in Antioch, 386/397. | E03890 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 9 October *Abraham (Old Testament patriarch, S00275), *Lot (Old Testament patriarch and nephew of Abraham, S01234), and the deposition of the relics of *Andrew (the Apostle, S00288), and *Severianos (martyr of Sebaste under Licinius, S01689), *Stratonikos and Seleukia (husband and wife, martyrs in Scythia, S01690), and *Iouventinus (soldier and martyr under the emperor Julian, S00053). | E04153 | Theodoret of Cyrrhus in his Ecclesiastical History (Book 3) recounts the persecutions of Julian the Apostate (r. 361-363), mentioning the *Martyrs of Askalon in Palestine (S01853), *Kyrillos (deacon and martyr of Heliopolis-Baalbek in Syria, S01851), *Aimilianos (martyr of Durostorum on the Lower Danube, S01589), *Ioventinos and Maximinos (soldiers and martyrs of Syrian Antioch, S00053), *Artemios (dux of Egypt and martyr in Antioch, S01128), and the confessor *Markos (bishop of Arethousa in Syria, S01563). Written in Greek at Cyrrhus (northern Syria), 444/450. | E05716 | John Malalas, in his Chronographia (13.19-20), mentions the martyrdom of *Iouventinos and Maximinos (martyrs of Antioch, S00053) and that of *Dometios (monk of Syria, later 4th c., S00414) under Julian the Apostate (361-363). Written in Greek at Antioch (Syria) or Constantinople, in the mid-6th c. |
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