 This legend accounts for the fact that Maximus is represented in art as pointing at a roe deer.Maximus is the author of numerous discourses, first edited by Bruno Bruni, and published by order of Pope Pius VI at the Propaganda in 1784 (reprinted in P.L., LVII).These discourses, delivered to the people by the saint, consist of one hundred and eighteen homilies, one hundred and sixteen sermons, and six treatises ("tractatus").