St. Maximus the Confessor icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5

St. Maximus the Confessor icon Mounted on wood Sizes:3 x 5Orthodox icon of Saint Maximos, Maximus the Confessor. Commemorated January 21. This is the Orthodox icon of Saint Maximus the Confessor who was born in Constantinople around 580 and raised in a pious Christian family. He received an excellent education, studying philosophy, grammar, and rhetoric. u00a0He held a position as the personal secretary to Heraclius has been taken as an indication that Maximus was born into Byzantine nobility. Saint Maximus

Through the fervent prayer of St Agnes

so they beat him and would have killed him if they had not expected to obtain a large ransom for him

On August 24

a kind and compassionate father to his spiritual children

by command of Herod

wound it around his neck

At the time of the Transfiguration

we celebrate the Transfer of his Holy Relics

she directed her sisterhood to receive Communion

but again quickly fell into error and gave orders to torture the saint

Churches of both West and East benefited from them

but fell down dead before he could touch her