The Trial of St. Maximus the Confessor That same day around nightfall the patrician Troilus and Sergius Euchratas, who was the one in charge of the royal table, came to the elderly servant of God. They sat down and invited him also to sit down. Then they said to him, Tell us, lord abbot, about the doctrinal dispute which took place between you and Pyrrhus in Africa and Rome, and by what words you persuaded him to condemn his own dogma and to embrace your own. And he recounted everything to them in order, just as memory allowed. He affirmed, I have no dogma of my own, just the common dogma of the Catholic Church. For I did not promote any formula so that a dogma could be said to be mine. After this explanation they said to him, You are not in communion with the see of Constantinople? And he said, I am not in communion. For what reason are you not in communion? they asked. He answered, Because they have rejected the four holy councils through the Nine Chapters adopted in Alexandria, and through the Ecthesis adopted in this city by Sergius, and recently through the Typos which was published in the sixth indiction; and because what they decreed by the chapters they condemned by the Ecthesis; and what they decreed by the Ecthesis they overturned by the Typos. And they contradicted themselves as many times. Thus those who were condemned by themselves and later by the Romans as well at the council held in the eighth indiction---what kind of liturgy can they celebrate, or what kind of Spirit can settle on those which are celebrated by such people?
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