Saints Juventinus and Maximinus were Christian martyrs and members of the imperial guard of Emperor Julian. Their feast day is 25 January.
The beheading of Juventinus and Maximinus
Gregory of Nazianzus, also known as Saint Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen, was an early Roman Christian theologian and prelate who served as Archbishop of Constantinople from 380 to 381. H
Juventinus and Maximinus
…them by suggesting they died because of their faith. The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus makes no mention of Juventinus and Maximinus, nor does Gregory of Nazianzus or church historian Socrates of Constantinople. Italian scholar Pio Franchi de Cavalieri has put forth that The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus was based…
Fresco from The Chora, 14th cent.
Gregory of Nazianzus with John Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea on a late-15th-century icon of the Three Holy Hierarchs from the Cathedral of St Sophia, Novgorod
Andrei Rublev, Gregory of Nazianzus, (1408), Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir.
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne