Maximos, a novel

One of the orthodox Church’s greatest saints, Maximos the Confessor, comes vibrantly to life in this moving historical novel of seventeenth-century Constantinople.

Born into immense wealth and privilege, and blessed with a pious temperament and the keenest of intellects, Maxomos from an early age lived at  the center of world-shaking events. With the empire in decline and the Church under attach, the future Saint was called to serve his emperor even though in his soul he longed to serve God. And finally, after God granted him his wish and he became a humble monk whose writings opposed heresy and brough solace and truth to many, Maximos found himself in a perilous situation, surrounded by enemies in both the Church  and the State who wanted nothing less than his very life.

A gripping tale of courage an faith, Maxmios the Confessor introduces readers to the life and times of one of the very greatest Fathers of the Church.