Maximus of Turin

Maximus of Turin (c.350–415), bishop. Little is known about his life: he became Turin's first bishop in 397 and held a council of Gaulish bishops there in 398. More than 100 of his sermons survive which reveal him as an evangelistin Piedmont in conflict with rural paganism, stressing the importance of the Christian liturgy. Feast: 25 June.

Bibliography
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• AA.SS., Iunii V (1744), 48 ff.; Works ed. A. Mutzenbecher, C.C.S.L., xxiii (1962)
• N.C.E., ix. 516; Bibl. SS., ix. 68–72