Maximinus of Aix

Saint Maximinus of Aix (French: Maximin d'Aix) was believed to have been the first bishop of Aix-en-Provence in the 1st century.

Maximin established his headquarters in the Roman colony of Aquae Sextiæ Salluviorum, the present Aix-en-Provence.

Her sarcophagus is now at the Basilica of St Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, along with that of Marcella, Suzanne and Maximinus, after whom the place was subsequently named.

The Abbé Duchesne says that this saint, the object of a very ancient local cult, was not considered the first bishop of Aix, or connected with the life of St. Mary Magdalen, except in comparatively recent legends, devised towards the middle of the eleventh century by the monks of Vézelay.

[6] Maximin was canonized by the confirmation of his cult on 24 November 1900 (the group " Niketius of Besançon and his 10 Companions") by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).