Byzantine pietra dura (stone inlay) icon depicting Saint Eudocia (Aelia Eudocia Augusta). 10th or 11th Century. Istanbul Archaeological Museums.[1194×2442]
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Byzantine pietra dura (stone inlay) icon depicting Saint Eudocia (Aelia Eudocia Augusta). 10th or 11th Century. Istanbul Archaeological Museums.[1194×2442]
by CryptographerKey2847
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1000 years have passed and how beautifully everything has been preserved. Respect to the masters, respect to those who have preserved it to this day.
Before she became St. Eudocia, she was empress Aelia Eudocia; and before that, a pagan woman named Athenais. She converted when she married young Theodosius II in AD 421. They were both about 20 years old.
She made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 438 and eventually settled there when she left Constantinople in 443. She was perhaps pushed out by Theodosius’ powerful sister Pulcheria. She died in Jerusalem in 460, ten years after Theodosius. A substantial amount of poetry by Eudocia also survives.