Maximus of Chinon
abbot near Chinon
Feast: 20 August (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Near Chinon in the territory of Tours in the region of Aquitaine in France, Saint Maximus, a disciple of Saint Martin, who was first a monk on the Ile-Barbe at Lyons and then founded a monastery on the river Vienne, in which he died full of days.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 20 August as a disciple of Saint Martin who founded a monastery on the river Vienne near Chinon and died there full of days.
- Roman Martyrology, 20 August (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q123741307 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.