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[128] _Vita S. Stephani Junioris_, Migne, P.G. 100, col. 1144, [Greek: he deutera en Kplei en to nao tes agias Eirenes].

[129] Theodore Lector, ed. Valesius (1748), p. 533. Eutychius afflicted by the divine anger went [Greek: en to euagei eukterio entha pepisteutai anapauesthai meros hieron leipsanon ton thespesion Pantaleontos kai Marinou, epikaloumenou tou topou h.o.m.onoia ek tou ekei sunelthontas tous hekaton pentekonta episkopous epi Theodosiou tou megalou basileos]. The pa.s.sage is preserved in John Damascene, _De imaginibus_, book iii.

[130] _Not.i.tia, Regio nona_, 'continet in se ecclesias duas, Cenopolim et Omonaeam.'

[131] Banduri, ii. p. 25.

[132] _Ad annum_ 478.

[133] Procop. _De aed._ i. c. 2; _Pasch. Chron._ p. 622.

[134] For this information I am indebted to Mr. W. S. George.

[135] Theoph. p. 371.

[136] Patr. Nicephorus, _in Breviario_.

[137] Theoph. p. 634.

[138] Mansi, xv. 211; xvi. p. 18. See _Basile I._ par Albert Vogt, p.

206.

[139] Const. Porphyr. _De cer._ p. 186; Cedren. ii. pp. 265, 275, 297.

Readers of Russian are referred to D. Belaev. 'The Church of S. Irene and the Earthquake in C.P. 28 June 1894,' _Vizantisky Vreinennik_, i., St. Petersburg, 1894, parts iii.-iv. section iii. pp. 769-798, and the article by the same author on the 'Interior and Exterior View of S.

Irene' in the same periodical, 1895, parts i, ii. section i. pp.

177-183. For the references to these articles I am indebted to Mr.

Norman E. Baynes, one of our younger Byzantine scholars.

[140] Const. Porphyr. _De Cer._ p. 179.

[141] Only some of the accents are indicated in the transcription.

[142] These openings are now covered with Turkish wooden staging, and the pa.s.sage is therefore quite dark.

[143] _History of the Byzantine Empire_, p. 34, Everyman Edition.

CHAPTER V

THE CHURCH OF S. ANDREW IN KRISEI, HOJA MUSTAPHA PASHA MESJEDI

That the old Byzantine church now converted into the mosque styled Hoja Mustapha Pasha Mesjedi, in the quarter of Juma Bazaar, at a short distance to the east of the Gate of Selivria was the church of S. Andrew in Krisei ([Greek: Mone tou Hagiou Andreou en Krisei])[144] can be established, by the indications which Byzantine writers have given of the site of that famous church, and by the legend which is still a.s.sociated with the mosque. According to Stephen of Novgorod[145] (c.

1350) the church dedicated to S. Andrew of Crete, who was buried, as other authorities[146] inform us, in the district named Krisis, stood at a short distance to the north of the monastery of the Peribleptos. It lay, therefore, to the north of the Armenian church of S. George (Soulou Monastir) in the quarter of Psamathia, which represents the church of S.

Mary Peribleptos. The mosque Hoja Mustapha Pasha Mesjedi lies in the same direction. Again, according to Pachymeres,[147] the church of S.

Andrew in Krisei was near the monastery of Aristina. That monastery, another authority states,[148] was opposite the church of S. Mamas.

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