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- The Placing of the Sash of the Most Holy Theotokos (395-408? 886- 912?)
- At the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, her sash came into the
possession of the Apostle Thomas and after various transfers came to
Cappadocia. It was later taken from there to Constantinople, where it
was kept in a sealed casket in the Church of the Theotokos at
Blachernae, at the time of the Emperor Arcadius (395-408). The casket
was not opened until the reign of the Emperor Leo the Wise (886-912),
when the Empress Zoe, who was ill, had a vision in which she was told to
have the sash placed upon her. The Emperor obtained the blessing of the
Patriarch, the sash was placed upon the Empress, and she was
immediately healed. Some accounts say that today's feast celebrates the
bringing of the sash to Constantinople; others that it commemorates the
miraculous healing of the Empress.
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