Saint Maximus, pointed out Benedict XVI, showed "immense courage in testifying the integral reality of Christ, without reductions or compromises". So, "this shows who man truly is, how we must live: joined to God and likewise to ourselves and to the cosmos, giving the cosmos and mankind their true form". The figure of Saint Maximus, recalled the Pope, has inspired "one of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century, Hans Urs von Balthasar, who defines his thought as a "cosmic liturgy", at the centre of which "Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world, always stays".” ” ” “
