MAXIMUS, Bishop of Jerusalem, Saint. - He is commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on 9 May. During the persecution of Maximinus Daia he was condemned to the mines after having had his right eye torn out and his left foot mutilated. Shortly before 335 he succeeded Macarius in the see of Jerusalem. Sozomen states that he had already been designated for the see of Diospolis, but his fellow citizens would not let him leave.

He took part in the Council of Tyre (335), but did not subscribe to the condemnation of St. Athanasius because St. Paphnutius managed to have him leave before the signing. He refused to take part in the Council of Antioch of 341 in protest against the Arians, by whom he had been deceived at the Synod of Jerusalem of 335, and in 349 he welcomed with great joy St. Athanasius, who was returning from exile. To render him greater honors he convoked a synod of Palestinian bishops, who also wrote a letter of good wishes and congratulations to the Church of Alexandria on the return of their bishop. For this adherence and friendship with St. Athanasius he was hated by the Eusebian Arians. M. died around 350.

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BIBL.: Sozomeno, Hist. eccl., I, 10; II, 20, 24 f.; III, 21 f.; Teodoreto, Hist. eccl., II, 22; Tillemont, VI, pp. 280 f., 774 f.; VIII, p. 661 f.; Acta SS. Maii, II, Parigi 1866, p. 8 f.; Martyr. Romanum, p. 173.

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