Sts. Juventinus, Longinus, and Maximinus

Sts. Juventinus, Longinus, and Maximinus

Martyred during the days of Emperor Julian the Apostate. Hymn of St. Severus of Antioch on the Holy Gentilian Martyrs: "Evil shall catch the unrighteous man to destruction" (Psalms 140:11) "When the treacherous crafty tyrant Julian, who surpassed and overcame all men in the wickedness of impiety, was persecuting the worship of God, and was concealing his injurious action by a pretence and a mask of mildness and gentleness, and was envious and bitter against the combatants on account of the crowns of martyrdom, and was by deceit making captive of many and sweeping them away, Juventinus and the valiant men with him, champions and soldiers of Christ, confuted and exposed him, in that they displayed and contended in a gallant conflict of combating prowess, and stripped off the cloak of his deceitfulness and gained crowns of victory and for the combats which they endured: by whose prayers, Christ, God, bestow upon us also understanding and wisdom against ail the wiles of the devil, according to the abundance of thy great mercy." BL17134