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[[Image:Maximus.jpg|right|frame|St. Maximus the Confessor]]Our venerable and God-bearing Father '''Maximus the Confessor''' (ca. 580-662) was an Orthodox Christian [[monasticism|monk]] and [[asceticism|ascetical]] writer known especially for his courageous fight against the [[heresy]] of [[Monothelitism]]. His [[feast day]]s in the Church are celebrated on [[January 21]] and , for the [[August 13Translation (relics)|translation]] of his [[relics]]., on [[Image:Maximus.jpg|right|frame|St. Maximus the ConfessorAugust 13]].

He was born in the region of Constantinople, was well educated, and spent some time in government service before becoming a [[monk]], having been a member of the old Byzantine aristocracy and holding the post of Imperial Secretary under Emperor [[Heraclius]]. Around 614, he became a [[monasticism|monk]] (later [[abbot]]) at the [[monastery ]] of Chrysopolis. During the Persian invasion of the Empire (614), he fled to Africa.

From about 640 on, he became the determined opponent of [[Monothelitism]], the [[heresy|heretical]] teaching that [[Jesus Christ]] had only one will. In this, he followed the example of St. [[Sophronius I of Jerusalem|Sophronius of Jerusalem]], who was the first to combat this heresy starting in 634.

Maximus supported the Orthodoxy of [[Church of Rome|Rome]] on this matter and is said to have exclaimed: "I have the faith of the Latins, but the language of the Greeks." He argued for [[Dyothelitism]], the Orthodox teaching that [[Jesus Christ]] possessed two wills (one divine and one human), rather than the one will posited by Monothelitism.

After [[Pyrrhus of Constantinople|Pyrrhus]], the temporarily deposed Monothelite Patriarch of Constantinople, had declared his defeat in a dispute at Carthage (645), Maximus obtained the heresy's condemnation at several local [[synod]]s in Africa, and also worked to have it condemned at the [[Lateran Council|Lateran Council of 649]]. He was brought to Constantinople in 653, pressured to adhere to the ''[[Typos]]'' of Emperor [[Constans II]]. Refusing to do so, he was exiled to Thrace. (Pope St. [[Martin the Confessor|Martin of Rome]] was tried around the same time in Constantinople, and thus deposed and exiled to Crimea.)

[[Image:StMaximConfess.jpg|right|thumb|Maximus the Confessor]][[Troparion]] (Tone 8)[http://oca.org/FStropars.asp?ID=100249]:O champion Champion of Orthodoxy, teacher of purity and of true worship,:The enlightener [[Enlightener]] of the universe and the adornment of the hierarchs[[hierarch]]s::O allAll-wise Father father Maximus,:Your your teachings have gleamed with light upon all things.:[[intercession|Intercede ]] before Christ our God to save our souls!. 

:Let us the faithful honor Maximus fittingly praise the great with worthy hymns!:He was greatly devoted to lover of the Holy [[Trinity.]],:He courageously preached The great Maximus who taught the God-inspired faith in God,:Glorifying That Christ is to be glorified in His two natures, wills , and operations.energies;:Therefore And let us cry out to Himhim: "Rejoice, O preacher herald of the faith!." 

*[[Wikipediaw:Maximus the Confessor]]

==External linklinks==*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=100249 St Maximus the Confessor] ([[OCA]])*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=102285 Translation of the relics of St Maximus the Confessor] (OCA)*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints/396 Maximos the Confessor], January 21 ([[GOARCH]])*[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints/162 Maximos the Confessor], August 13 (GOARCH)*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/m/phn60.htm Icon of St. Maximos the Confessor] ===Writings===

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