"For this reason he did not settle in one place on Athos, as most monks do in tranquil cells, but kept moving from one place to another nearby like a vagrant. He would quickly build huts, and then burn them down again with fire. This behavior was strange for the monks, and even for people in general. The blessed one never possessed a digging fork or hoe, nor a purse, nor a bench, a table, a pot, flour, oil, or wine, nor any other material necessity, nor bread, but living like an immaterial being in places untouched by materiality, he thus possessed only the semblance of a small hut, large enough only to contain his much-suffering body. And after building this out of grasses, he would soon burn it down. For this reason, although he was not in error, he was considered deranged, and at the same time he was given the sobriquet Hutburner by earthly-minded people, who did not see in him the illuminating divine grace of the Spirit which sheltered him like a divine, celestial tent and spread sweetness, and the eternal hope and prayer which always refreshed him like dew."
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Chapter 10, "Life of Maximos the Hutburner by Theophanes", translated by Richard P. H. Greenfield and Alice-Mary Talbot. In Holy Men of Mount Athos (2016), p. 481
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Maximos of Kafsokalyvia
Saint Maximos Kausokalybis (Greek: Μάξιμος Καυσοκαλύβης; died 1365 or 1380), also known as St. Maximos the Hut Burner, was a hesychast monk who lived on Mount Athos in Greece.
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