Saint Maximus, Archbishop of Vlacho-Zaplanian

Life

Maximus was the son of the Serbian despot Stefan the Blind and Despotess Angelina. He became a monk at the Manasija monastery. Oppressed by the Turks, he fled to Romania where he was consecrated to the vacant throne of the Archbishop of Vlacho-Zaplanian. He reconciled the quarreling voivodes Radul and Bogdan and prevented war between them. In his later years he returned to Krushedol where he built a monastery and where after a longer struggle he reposed on January 18, 1546. His incorrupt and wonderworking relics still lie in that monastery.