Juventinus and Maximinus

Saints Juventinus (or Juventius) and Maximinus (died 29 January 363)[1] were Christian martyrs and members of the imperial guard of Emperor Julian.

[2] Before starting his campaign against the Sassanid Empire, Julian issued an edict that prohibited the veneration of the relics in Antioch.

He also gave orders to sprinkle all the foodstuffs in the marketplace and the water in the wells with blood offered to idols.

[3] 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?

Wherever one is, one inhales the ugly smell of animal fat and sacrificial meat.