Maximin was interred in the cemetery outside the northern gate of Trier, where his remains were joined by later bishops in the multi-chambered crypt of a church dedicated to
John the Evangelist, later rededicated as
St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier.
Gregory of Tours attests to the cult of Maximin in the church of Saint John Evangelist and the cult offered at his grave. The Abbey – destroyed by
Normans in 882, and rebuilt, then entirely re-built in the 1680s, secularised in 1802, bombed in World War II and since largely demolished – was one of the oldest in western Europe. In
iconology Maximin was portrayed as a bishop, with a book, model of a church, and, borrowing from the legend of
Corbinian, a bear carrying Maximin's travelling pack. As a patron, Maximin was invoked as protection against perjury, loss at sea and destructive rains. His
cultus was strongest in the region around Trier and in
Alsace. Medieval legend conflated him with
Maximinus of Aix (), who was added to the
Seventy Apostles referred to in the Gospel of Luke. That Maximinus was said to have accompanied
Mary Magdalene and a company of the faithful to
Aix-en-Provence, miraculously sped by a frail boat without a rudder or a mast. After Maximinus became the first Bishop of Aix-en-Provence Mary retired to the "right sharp desert" nearby for thirty years before being found and retrieved by Maximin just before her death. The thirteenth-century telling of the legend can be read in
William Caxton's English translation of
Jacobus de Voragine's
Golden Legend. In fact this part of the legend is lifted from the Eastern story of
Mary of Egypt and
Zosimas of Palestine. The
cultus of Mary Magdalene and this Maximin in Provence was centered at
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. Other communes in France named Saint-Maximin commemorate one or the other saints named Maximin. ==See also==