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St. Maxentia of Pont-Sainte-Maxence

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St. Maxentia of Pont-Sainte-Maxence

Virgin and Martyr

Maxentia is remembered as a virgin and martyr near the river Oise. Butler records her veneration at Pont-Sainte-Maxence and the differing local dates of her feast.

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The life below remains the existing Butler-based reading, with its edition citation. The profile preserves the feast date and source title already listed in the library. Additional personal dates and historical details are shown only when separately documented.

Place of veneration: Pont-Sainte-Maxence on the Oise
Butler records the town’s association with her relics and distinguishes the differing local feast dates.

Butler sourceAlban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Maxentia, Virgin and Martyr,” p. 429.

Butler’s Lives of the Saints (1846)Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Maxentia, Virgin and Martyr,” p. 429.

The reading

ⓘ Butler source

Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 20, “St Maxentia, Virgin and Martyr,” p. 429.

Maxentia is remembered as a woman who had consecrated her virginity to God. Butler says that she came from Ireland, while noting the Scottish description found in the older tradition. Her alleged royal ancestry is reported as a tradition.

She withdrew to France and lived near the river Oise, not far from Senlis. The account says that a pursuer who could not overcome her resolution found and murdered her. Her veneration continued at the place called Pont-Sainte-Maxence.

Butler records November 20 for her feast in Scotland and in the diocese of Beauvais. He also gives other local observances in Ireland and England. Her remembrance here follows the November entry while preserving those differences in the source.

Historical note

An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.

Butler records November 20 in Scotland and Beauvais, October 24 in Ireland and England, and April 16 in some English places. Her origin and royal ancestry belong to the tradition of the notice; no exact death year is asserted.

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