Massimiliano Maximilian of Tebessa

274 (age 21)

Roman army, Maximilian

On 12 March, Anno Domini 295, at the City of Thavaste (now: Tébessa, Algeria), North Africa. he was brought before the proconsul of Numidia, Cassius Dion, to swear allegiance to the Emperor as a soldier. He refused, stating that, as a Christian, he could not serve in the military, leading to his immediate beheading by the sword. The 1970s anti-Vietnam War clergy group Order of Maximilian took their name from him. Maximilian"s name has been regularly read out, as a representative conscientious objector from the Roman Empire, at the annual ceremony marking International Conscientious Objectors" Day, 15 May, at the Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London.

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Born in the third century, Anno Domini 274, the son of Fabius Victor, a soldier in the Roman army, Maximilian was obliged to enlist at the age of 21.

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On 12 March, Anno Domini 295, at the City of Thavaste (now: Tébessa, Algeria), North Africa. he was brought before the proconsul of Numidia, Cassius Dion, to swear allegiance to the Emperor as a soldier. He refused, stating that, as a Christian, he could not serve in the military, leading to his immediate beheading by the sword. The 1970s anti-Vietnam War clergy group Order of Maximilian took their name from him.

Maximilian"s name has been regularly read out, as a representative conscientious objector from the Roman Empire, at the annual ceremony marking International Conscientious Objectors" Day, 15 May, at the Conscientious Objectors Commemorative Stone, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London.

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