34 St. Maximus The Confessor

St. Maximus The Confessor

One of the great Fathers of the Eastern Church in later times w s a monk, St. Maximus. His fearless courage in witnessing to— “confessing”— even while suffering, the integrity of his faith in Jesus Christ, true God and true man, saviour of the world, earned him Christian tradition’s title of Confessor. Maximus was born in Palestine, the land of the Lord, in about 580. As a boy, he was initiated to the monastic life and the study of the Scriptures through the works of Origen, the great teacher who by the third century had already “established” the exegetical tradition of Alexandria…

Taken from Great Christian Thinkers by Pope Benedict XVI