Maximilien Villain

Maximilien Villain de Gand (1569–1644) was a bishop of Tournai in the Habsburg Netherlands.

[1] He was ordained to the priesthood on 12 December 1587 and was appointed to a canonry in the cathedral chapter of Tournai.

The nomination received papal confirmation on 1 December 1615 and Villain took possession of his see on 28 February 1616.

[1] On 12 September 1636 he gave a silver reliquary containing relics of St Maximilian to his cathedral church.

[2] He had earlier commissioned two paintings for the cathedral from Peter Paul Rubens, The Triumph of Judas Maccabeus and The Deliverance of Souls from Purgatory.