Andrew Louth - Syriac Christian Church

LIFE AND TIMES 17
Bulgarian border). Further attempts followed to break his resolve.
When they failed, Maximus was tried again in Constantinople,
tortured, had his tongue and his right hand —the instruments with
which he had defended Orthodoxy (or to his judges proclaimed heresy)
—cut off, and exiled to Lazica, the homeland of Cyrus of Alexandria.
He died there, over eighty years old, on 13 August 662. He died
abandoned, except for his two disciples: there was no protest from
Rome or anywhere else. His memory was, however, treasured in
Georgia (to which the province of Lazica properly belongs). Within
twenty years the teaching for which he had given his life—the
doctrine that Christ had two wills, a divine will and a human will—
was vindicated at the sixth Ecumenical Council, convened at
Constantinople in 680, though no mention was made there of the
great confessor of Orthodoxy, St Maximus. 21