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On this day, the church honors the transfer of the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor.
An authoritative teacher
Rev. Maxim the Confessor is one of the greatest and most authoritative church fathers and teachers of Orthodoxy.
He is an ardent defender of the purity of the Orthodox faith, sealing his loyalty to it with the martyrdom of confession. In his theology, St. Maxim developed the Orthodox doctrine of the two wills corresponding to the two natures – Divine and human, in the God-human Person of the Son of God Jesus Christ, and thus became the exponent of the dogmatic truth of the Universal Church against the Monothelite heresy. His teachings on this important issue formed the basis of the creed of the VI Ecumenical Council (AD 681).
Rev. Maxim the Confessor was one of the most highly educated men of his time. He is a brilliant connoisseur of the main trends of ancient Greek philosophy, from whose ideological heritage the teachers of the Church drew expressive means for the clearer and more precise formulation of the Christian divinely revealed teaching. Deeply erudite and imbued with the spirit of patristic theology, knowing perfectly the rich conceptual content of Christ’s teaching, the spiritual heritage and the deep roots of the Church’s tradition, St. Maxim showed himself as a prolific Christian thinker and an authoritative teacher of the truths of faith.
Defamation
When Emperor Constans II, Heraclius’ successor, learned of this, he slandered Maximus and demanded that he be sent to Constantinople. Failing that, he ordered at night to be caught and taken away. On trial, he was slandered in treason and enmity against the king. They beat him so that the ground around him was drenched with his blood. They cut out his tongue, cut off his right hand and dragged him through the streets of the city. Exiled to Kherson, died in 622.
† Bishop Hilarion of Trajanopol, Extensive Orthodox Monthly, ed. Tabor.
2023-08-12 21:04:45
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