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For the Roman Emperor of the same name see MaxentiusSaint Maxentius (c. 445-c. 515) (French: Saint Maxence Maixent) was born in Agde France and originally had the name Adjutor. He was trained by Saint Severus and became a monk in his abbey.Butler’s Lives of the Saints offers the following remarks:Praise was even more distasteful to him than detraction and to escape the prominence into which he was being thrust he quietly slipped away from Agde and remained in hiding for two years.
