Instead, the Italian scholar Pio Franchi de Cavalieri has argued that The Passion of Sergius and Bacchus was based on an earlier lost passion of Juventinus and Maximinus, two saints martyred under Emperor Julian the Apostate in 363.

For the 3rd century Roman Emperor of the same name, see: Maximinus Thrax.

From this time forward down to the latest period of the empire, for nearly a thousand years, the name occurs more or less frequently in the Fasti, and it was borne by the emperors Maximinus, Maximianus, Maxentius, Diocletian, Constantius, Constantine the Great and others.

The source actually gives 32 names but as the author, writing under the name of one Trebellius Pollio, places the last two under the reign of Maximinus Thrax and Claudius II respectively, this leaves thirty pretenders supposedly under the reign of Gallienus.

Little else is known of him although the damaged inscription bearing his name does record him adding a building at Carrawburgh under Maximinus.

* Catherine makes public confession of Christian gospel at a sacrificial feast ordered by Maximinus II at Alexandria.

Their marriage was the occasion for the jointly-issued " Edict of Milan " that reissued Galerius ' previous edict allowing Christianity to be professed in the Empire, with additional dispositions that restored confiscated properties to Christian congregations and exempted Christian clergy from municipal civic duties. The redaction of the edict as reproduced by Lactantius-who follows the text affixed by Licinius in Nicomedia on June 14 313, after Maximinus ' defeat-uses a neutral language, expressing a will to propitiate " any Divinity whatsoever in the seat of the heavens ".

In one extant inscription ( CIL III. 12132, from Arycanda ), the cities of Lycia and Pamphylia asking for the interdiction of the Christian cult, Maximinus, in another inscription, replied by expressing his hope that " may those [...] who, after being freed from [...] those by-ways [...] rejoice snatched from a grave illness ". After the victory of Constantine over Maxentius, however, Maximinus, according to Eusebius, directed a letter to the Praetorian Prefect Sabinus, in which he expressed the view that it was better to " recall our provincials to the worship of the gods rather by exhortations and flatteries ".

Eusebius also writes that Maximinus conceived an " insane passion " for a Christian girl of Alexandria, who was of noble birth noted for her wealth, education, and virginity – Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Since the Edict was composed for publication in the east by Licinius, on his hoped for victory over Maximinus, it was expressive of the religious policy accepted by Licinius, a pagan, rather than that of Constantine, already a committed Christian.

Capelianus, governor of Numidia, loyal supporter of Maximinus Thrax, and who held a grudge against Gordian, renewed his alliance to the former emperor and invaded Africa province with the only legion stationed in the region, III Augusta, and other veteran units.

Capelianus, governor of Numidia, a loyal supporter of Maximinus Thrax, and who held a grudge against Gordian, renewed his allegiance to the reigning emperor and invaded Africa province with the only legion stationing in the region, III Augusta, and other veteran units.

Following Galerius ' death, Maximinus was no longer constrained ; he enthusiastically took up renewed persecutions in the eastern territories under his control, encouraging petitions against Christians, one of which, addressed to him and to Constantine and Licinius, is preserved in a stone inscription at Arycanda in Lycia, " to request that the Christians, who have long been disloyal and still persist in the same mischievous intent, should at last be put down and not be suffered by any absurd novelty to offend against the honour due to the gods.

He suffered during the persecution under the Roman emperor Maximinus Thrax in 235.

The season was soon after Easter ; the year may be safely deduced from the fact that the first nine canons are intended to repair havoc wreaked in the church by persecution, which ceased after the overthrow of Maximinus in 313.

Having received the emperor Galerius ' instruction to repeal the persecution in 311, Maximinus had instructed his subordinates to desist, but had not released Christians from prisons or virtual death-sentences in the mines, as Constantine and Licinius had both done in the West.

During the persecution of Maximinus Daia, Lucian was arrested at Antioch and sent to Nicomedia, where he endured many tortures over nine years of imprisonment.

Jerome further states that Methodius suffered martyrdom at the end of the last persecution, i. e., under Maximinus Daia ( 311 ).

Galerius ended the persecution in the East in 311, but it was resumed in Egypt, Palestine, and Asia Minor by his successor, Maximinus.

Licinius ousted Maximinus in 313, bringing an end to persecution in the East.

In this " Second Tetrarchy ", it seems that only the Eastern emperors, Galerius and Maximinus, continued with the persecution.

Within seven months of Galerius's proclamation, Maximinus resumed persecution.

Maximinus committed suicide at Tarsus in 313 after being defeated in battle by Licinius.

In 308, after the elevation of Licinius to Augustus, Maximinus and Constantine were declared filii Augustorum (" sons of the Augusti "), but Maximinus probably started styling himself after Augustus during a campaign against the Sassanids in 310.

Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus and Decimus Caelius Calvinus Balbinus ( both died on July 29, 238 ) were two Roman co-emperors elected by the Roman senate on April 22, 238 after the failure of Gordian I and Gordian II to defeat the usurper Maximinus Thrax.

The sources suggest that after Pupienus's victorious return following Maximinus ' death, Balbinus suspected Pupienus of wanting to supplant him, and they were soon living in different parts of the Imperial palace, where they were later assassinated by disaffected elements of the Praetorian Guard.

Leaving his senior colleague Balbinus in charge of the civil administration at Rome, sometime during late April Pupienus marched to Ravenna, where he oversaw the campaign against Maximinus, recruiting German auxiliary troops who had served under him whilst he was in Germania ; after the latter was assassinated by his soldiers just outside Aquileia he despatched both Maximinus's troops and his own back to their provinces ( along with a considerable donative ) and returned to Rome with his newly acquired German bodyguard.

Several emperors after Trajan, as late as AD 336, assumed the victory title of Dacicus Maximus (" Totally Victorious over the Dacians "): Antoninus Pius ( 157 ), Maximinus I ( 238 ), Decius ( 250 ) Gallienus ( 257 ), Aurelian ( 272 ) and Constantine I the Great ( 336 ).

Quartinus himself was dismissed from the army by Maximinus after Alexander's death.

Their plan was to have Roman soldiers destroy the bridge over the river Rhine, after Maximinus had brought the army across during his campaign against the Germans.

The point of the work is to describe the deaths of the persecutors of Christians: Nero, Domitian, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian, and the contemporaries of Lactantius himself, Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Maximinus.

They in turn appointed two new Caesars — Severus II in the west under Constantius, and Maximinus in the east under Galerius — thereby creating the second Tetrarchy.

Their Caesares, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus, were both raised to the rank of Augustus, and two new Caesares were appointed: Maximinus ( Caesar to Galerius ) and Flavius Valerius Severus ( Caesar to Constantius ).

By 308 there were therefore no fewer than four claimants to the rank of Augustus ( Galerius, Constantine, Maximian and Maxentius ), and only one to that of Caesar ( Maximinus ).

In the East, Galerius remained Augustus and Maximinus remained his Caesar.

* Constantius Chlorus and Galerius are declared Augusti ; Flavius Valerius Severus and Maximinus II Daia are appointed Caesars.

* A number of Roman emperors of the 3rd-5th century were of Thraco-Roman backgrounds ( Maximinus Thrax, Licinius, Galerius, Aureolus, Leo the Thracian, etc .).

Although prior to 303 there appeared to be tacit agreement between the Tetrarchs that Constantius ’ s son, Constantine and Maximian ’ s son Maxentius were to be promoted to the rank of Caesar once Diocletian and Maximian had resigned the purple, by the end of 304 Galerius had convinced Diocletian ( who in turn convinced Maximian ) to appoint Galerius ’ s nominees Severus and Maximinus Daia as Caesars.

Then on the death of Galerius, in May 311, Licinius entered into an agreement with Maximinus Daia, to share the eastern provinces between them.

In 305, his maternal uncle Galerius became the eastern Augustus and adopted Maximinus, raising him to the rank of caesar ( in effect, the junior eastern Emperor ), with the government of Syria and Egypt.

On the death of Galerius, in 311, Maximinus divided the Eastern Empire between Licinius and himself.

Three Roman Emperors were born in the municipality of Zaječar ; Galerius ( r. 293 – 311 ), Maximinus ( r. 305 – 312 ) and Licinius ( r. 308 – 324 ).

: For the Roman emperors Maximinus, see Maximinus Thrax or Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus.

** Caesar: Maximinus " Daia " (" C. Valerius Galerius Maximinus Nob.

Caesar "; b. C. Valerius Galerius Maximinus ), 305 – 311