The Desert and the Confessors

Saint Maximus the Confessor AD 662

Monk and Confessor

Commemorated

January 21

Lived

AD 662

A monk and theologian who defended the two wills of Christ against Monothelitism. For refusing to be silent he had his tongue and right hand cut off and died in exile — vindicated at the Sixth Council.

Holy Maximus the Confessor, pray to God for us.