# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:37.947Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Maximus started as a civil servant and aide to Byzantine Emperor Heraclius before trading politics for monasticism around 580. Steeped in Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists — Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, Proclus — he was pulled into theological combat when a friend embraced Monothelitism, the view that Christ had only one will. Maximus argued from the Chalcedonian formula that Jesus held both human and divine wills, a position that led to trial, the brutal removal of his tongue and right hand, and exile. He died 13 August 662 in Tsageri, in what is now Georgia. The Third Council of Constantinople vindicated his theology shortly after, and both Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions venerate him as a saint — a Confessor, one who suffered for faith without direct martyrdom.