Saint
Maximos the Confessor
January 21st
Troparion (Tone 3)
Through thee the Spirit poured forth streams of teaching for the
Church: thou didst expound God the Word's self-emptying, and
shine forth in thy struggles as a true Confessor of the Faith;
holy Father Maximos, pray to Christ our God to grant us His great
mercy.
St. Maximos the Confessor defended Orthodoxy against the Monothelite heresy which tried to assert that Christ only had a divine will and thus was not fully man. St. Maximos had to endure persecution from both the Emperor and the Patriarch. He was tortured and ridiculed in unspeakable fashion. His tongue was cut off along with his hand. God miraculously restored his hand. He reposed in the Lord in 662.
This icon is by the hand of Nicholas Papas. This icon is one of the "cloud of witnesses" at St. Philip's Antiochian Orthodox Church, Souderton, Pennsylvania.
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