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Saint Theodosia is regarded as a martyr for defending the icon of the Savior at the Bronze Gates of Constantinople. [10] After killing the soldier ordered to destroy the icon by shaking a ladder, Saint Theodosia was punished with execution. [10]
While an officer was executing the order, a group of women gathered to prevent the operation. Among them was Theodosia, who shook the ladder strongly until the officer fell from it. The man died from his injuries, and Theodosia was arrested and brought to the Forum Bovis. There, she was executed by having a ram's horn hammered through her neck. [4]
Saint Theodosia may refer to: Theodosia of Tyre, martyred in 307 AD in Caesarea; Theodosia of Constantinople, martyred in 729 in Constantinople
Icon celebrating the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" and the restoration of icon veneration in 843. Saint Theodosia, an iconodule martyr, is depicted first left on the lower row, carrying the icon of Christ Chalkites. [24] Above the main entrance of the Chalke, there stood an icon of Christ, the so-called Christ Chalkites ("Christ of the Chalke"). [7]
Theodosius the Cenobiarch (c. 423–529), a monk, abbot, and saint, founder and of the cenobitic way of monastic life; Theodosius, archdeacon and pilgrim to the Holy Land, author of De Situ Terrae Sanctae ca. 518-530; Theodosius the Deacon, 10th-century Byzantine poet who wrote the poem "The Conquest of Crete"
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