Hl. Maximilian

Statue of St. Maximilian in front of the burial chapel at the cemetery of Grossharras. Maximilianus of Celeia, according to a tradition from the 11th/13th century, is said to have given away his great inheritance to the slaves of his estate and made a pilgrimage to Rome. There, Pope Sixtus II sent him back to his homeland in 257 to proclaim his faith. He was an itinerant bishop for 20 years and the first bishop of Lauriacum (Lorch an der Enns). He was beheaded during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Numerian.