"Leaving the great and wondrous Lavra, he first set off at full speed on the ascent of Athos, where the tablets of grace were promised by the Mother of God. And thus he reached it, without eating anything, on the seventh [Sunday after Easter]; for that day was the first [Sunday] after the Ascension, the so-called Sunday of the Holy Fathers. After arriving at the summit there and prostrating himself and praying to God, as was his custom every night, he spent the whole night in vigil together with some monks. But when all the monks departed in the morning and no one was left behind, he remained there alone for three entire days and nights without food and wearing only a single garment, in the service of God. And he constantly had the name of the Mother of God on his tongue, in his mind and heart through mental prayer in the Spirit."
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Chapter 9, "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. 473, 475
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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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