In a message dated 06/14/2000 4:23:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< METHODIUS, patriarch of Constantinople (A.D. 847)
S. Methodius was born at Syracuse, in Sicily; forsaking the world, he
retired to the island of Chios, where he erected a monastery; but on
the breaking out of persecution under the Iconoclastic emperor, Leo the
Armenia, he escaped to Rome, where he remained till the "tyranny was
overpast" . . . >>
Maybe the date should be 747. If not, his name should be Methuselah instead
of Methodius: Leo the Armenian died in the 740's.
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