When Saint Maximos fell asleep in the Lord, he was buried at the northeastern corner of the Church of the Holy Spirit, which had been erected by Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich IV [the Terrible] in commemoration of the conquest of Kazan, within the Lavra of Saint Sergius.
After Saint Maximos’s death, many people paid their respects to his holy relics. According to a chronographer of old, he was called a great teacher and prophet. The people of Russia considered him "a new confessor and martyr for the truth." They honored him as a saint, ignoring the condemnatory judgements of the Synods of 1525 and 1531. In honoring Saint Maximos, Metropolitan Platon of Moscow writes that "he died at a great age and was buried with much reverence. He is considered a great figure of the Church, who was glorified with sanctity." Metropolitan Platon had a reliquary made, with a cupola, and in 1833, the locum tenens of the Lavra of Saint Sergius, Archimandrite Anthony, built a chapel over his grave.
