Maximilian of Lorch

Saint Maximilian of Lorch (also: Maximilian of Celeia, Latin: Maximilianus) (died 12 October 288)[1] was a missionary in the Roman province of Noricum.

[2] Maximilian was born in Celeia in the Roman province of Noricum (in present-day Slovenia).

[2] Pope Sixtus II sent him to Lauriacum (Lorch) in the Roman province of Noricum, where he worked as a missionary during the latter half of the third century.

Maximilian was beheaded by the Roman Prefect of Emperor Numerian after refusing to abandon Christianity and sacrifice to the pagan gods.

In that century, Saint Rupert built a church in his honour at Bischofshofen in the Salzach valley, and brought his relics there.