Saint Maximus Saint Toy
***This Saint Maximus doll will be made after purchase. Please allow some weeks for shipment - check my processing time for this item posted in the "Shipping and Policies" tab in this listing. This item will resemble the photos essentially but will be different being that it is hand painted. If you wish to have a photo sent before it is shipped just notify me.***

This is a little 3 1/2 inch tall peg doll of St. Maximus the Confessor also known as Maximos.

"Born to the Byzantine nobility. Chief secretary to Emperor Heraclius, a post he resigned yo become a monk at Chrysopolis. Spiritual student of Saint Sophronius. Abbot of Chrysopolis. His community broke up in 626 due to Persian invasion. Maximus fled to Alexandria, then Carthage, then Rome. Worked with Pope Martin I against Monothelist heresy, and attended the Lateran Council of 649.

Falsely accused of treason due to his defense of the orthodox faith, he was arrested and forcibly returned to Constantinople. He spent years in prison misery, and at age 82 received his final sentence: he was flogged, his tongue cut out, his right hand cut off, he was exhibited in the streets as an example to the people, and was sent into exile at Skhemeris on the Black Sea, where he died soon after. He is best remembered today for his mystical, ascetical, and theological writings, and for his steadfast belief that the purpose of all history was the Incarnation."