A Georgian monk Maxim has been living on a 40 meters high limestone monolith in Imeretia for twenty years. Katshiysky Pillar has been worshipped by locals since pre-Christian times as a place where a human being can become closer to God. The church on the mountain was built between the VI and VIII centuries. It was found out in 1944 when only the foundation remained from all the structure.
The silence prevailing here lets you feel God.
The new church was built here mainly thanks to monk Maxim that is why it was named after Maximus the Confessor. Maxim is spending day after day, year after year in the silence of this place. It takes him twenty minutes to come down from the Pillar and even longer to go upstairs.
Maxim became a monk after being liberated from a prison. He wished to change and revive the traditions of pillar ascents which had been living there before the invasion of ottomans in the XV century.
The ruins of the ancient temple were found on the Pillar only in 1944 by a research group.
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