Anastasius

Holy Martyr Anastasius, disciple of Saint Maximus the Confessor, suffered together with his teacher under the Monothelites, that is the party that opposed the teaching of the two wills in Christ. Maximus and two of his disciples, Anastasius among them, were severely tortured: their tongues and right hands were cut off. They were sent into exile to Skemarum in Scythia and endured many hardships on the way.

Anastasius wrote the Life of his teacher, Maximus. He reposed in 662. The Orthodox Church remembers him on 21 January (a day of the old church calendar, according to the OCA); the date of 13 August in our record is the day of Saint Maximus. Historical research also gives different accounts of their exile: a younger Anastasius is said to have died a few days before Maximus, and another, older one, after many years of exile.