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Andragathius, who immediately, with soldiers prepared for this, assassinated Gratian. who shot with such good aim that some said Gratian's arrows had minds. He was moved by Theodosius to the imperial tombs. But Gratian's brother, Valentinian, named after his father, who was still living, recalled the exiled bishops and gave them back their own churches, having expelled the Arians, with Damasus, the pope of Rome, cooperating with him. Then also Gregory the Theologian taught the word of truth more boldly in Constantinople in the oratory of Saint Anastasia, it being still small, having spent ten years and a little more there. where also extraordinary miracles occur from an appearance of our all-pure lady the Theotokos. For the name of the church of Saint Anastasia is explained in two ways: Anastasis (Resurrection) because 1.552 the word of orthodoxy rose up in it, and Anastasia because of the miracle that happened in it; for it is said that a certain woman fell from above and died, but when a common prayer was made by the orthodox, she rose again. The oratory being small at that time, it was later rebuilt during the time of the holy Marcian as it is now seen. The emperor Theodosius, however, was by race a Spaniard from the west, a certain nobleman and wonderful in wars. This man straightway conquered the barbarians in Thrace by force, being pious and orthodox. He was of a well-proportioned build, faultless from feet to head, ruddy in face, having blond hair, a slender and aquiline nose, graceful in conversation, and most gracious in manner, having a wife named Flacilla, from whom he had Arcadius and Honorius; after her death, he married Galla, the sister of Gratian. And while in Thessalonica, having fallen ill, he was baptized by Ascholius the bishop. And he wrote a law on behalf of the orthodox of the homoousion, which they sent to Constantinople. And coming himself to Constantinople, he declared to Demophilus that he must either renounce the Arian error or swiftly depart from the church. But he, gathering the multitude of Arians, held church services outside the city, having with him also Lucius, the Arian bishop of Alexandria. And so then the divine Gregory, with those whom he himself had enlightened in the orthodox faith 1.553, took possession of all the churches, the Arians having held them for forty years and a little more. In the 5th year of Theodosius in Antioch a woman gave birth at the same time to four male children; she lived for two months, and the four died one by one. In the 10th year the great and ecumenical holy second council of the one hundred and fifty orthodox bishops was assembled in Constantinople for the confirmation of the dogmas decreed in Nicaea and against Macedonius the Pneumatomachian; present were Timothy of Alexandria, Meletius of Antioch, Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory the Theologian. And Macedonius is anathematized for blaspheming against the Holy Spirit, and with him Sabellius and Apollinaris, and also Arius and Eusebius of Nicomedia and Euzoius and Acacius, Theognis and Euphronius and the other heretics. And the second council is 62 years from the first. And for Gregory the Theologian, the council confirmed the episcopacy of Constantinople, as for one who had toiled much and freed the church from the scourge of the heresies. But the most blessed one, learning that some from Egypt were envious of the matter, delivered his farewell oration and voluntarily withdrew from the throne of the queen of cities, having been its bishop for only two years.

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Ἀνδραγάθιον, ὃς παραυτὰ διὰ στρατιωτῶν παρ εσκευασμένων ὄντων ἐπὶ τούτου Γρατιανὸν διεχειρίσατο. ὃς ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον εὐστόχως ἐτόξευεν ὡς λέγειν τινὰς τὰ Γρατιανοῦ βέλη φρένας ἔχειν. μετετέθη δὲ ὑπὸ Θεοδοσίου εἰς τοὺς βασιλικοὺς τάφους. Ἀδελφὸς δὲ Γρατιανοῦ ὁμώνυμος τῷ πατρὶ Οὐαλεντινιανῷ, ἔτι περιών, τοὺς ἐν ἐξορίᾳ ἐπισκόπους ἀνεκαλέσατο καὶ τὰς ἰδίας ἐκκλησίας ἀπέδωκεν αὐτοῖς, ἐκδιώξας τοὺς Ἀρειανούς, ∆αμάσου τοῦ πάπα Ῥώμης αὐτῷ συμπράττοντος. τότε καὶ ὁ θεολόγος Γρηγόριος παρρησιαστικώτερον τὸν λόγον τῆς ἀληθείας ἐδίδασκεν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει εἰς τὸ εὐκτήριον τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστασίας ἔτι μικρὸν τυγχάνον, δέκα χρόνους καὶ μικρόν τι πρὸς ἐκεῖσε πεποιη κώς. ἔνθα καὶ παράδοξα γίνεται θαύματα ἐξ ἐμφανείας τῆς παναχράντου δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς θεοτόκου. δισσῶς γὰρ λέγεται ἡ ἐπωνυμία τοῦ τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστασίας ναοῦ, ἀνάστασις μὲν διὰ 1.552 τὸ τὸν τῆς ὀρθοδοξίας λόγον ἐν ταύτῃ ἀναστῆναι, Ἀναστασία δὲ διὰ τὸ συμβὰν εἰς αὐτὴν θαυματούργημα· λέγεται γὰρ γυναῖκά τινα ἄνωθεν πεσοῦσαν ἀποθανεῖν, γενομένης δὲ κοινῆς εὐχῆς ὑπὸ τῶν ὀρθοδόξων ταύτην ἀναστῆναι. μικροῦ δὲ ὄντος τότε τοῦ εὐκτηρίου, ὕστερον ἐπὶ τοῦ ὁσίου Μαρκιανοῦ ἀνοικοδομηθῆναι καθὼς ὁρᾶται. Θεοδόσιος μέντοι βασιλεὺς τῷ γένει μὲν Ἴβηρ ἦν τῶν ἑσπε ρίων, εὐγενὴς δέ τις καὶ θαυμάσιος περὶ τοὺς πολέμους. οὗτος εὐθὺ τοὺς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ βαρβάρους κατὰ κράτος ἐνίκησεν, εὐσεβὴς ὢν καὶ ὀρθόδοξος. οὗτος ἦν τὴν μὲν ἀναδρομὴν τοῦ σώματος σύμμετρος, ἄμεμπτος ἀπὸ ποδῶν ἕως κεφαλῆς, ὑπέρυθρος τῷ προσώπῳ, ξανθὴν ἔχων τὴν τρίχα, τὴν ῥῖνα λεπτὴν καὶ ἐπίγρυ πον, χαρίεις τὴν ὁμιλίαν, τὸν τρόπον δὲ χαριέστατος, ἔχων γυ ναῖκα ὀνόματι Πλακίλλαν, ἐξ ἧς ἔσχεν Ἀρκάδιον καὶ Ὁνώριον· ἧς τελευτησάσης Γάλλαν ἀδελφὴν Γρατιανοῦ ἔγημεν. ἐν Θεσσα λονίκῃ δὲ ὤν, νόσῳ περιπεσών, βαπτίζεται ὑπὸ Ἀσχολίου τοῦ ἐπισκόπου. καὶ νόμον ὑπὲρ τῶν ὀρθοδόξων τοῦ ὁμοουσίου ἔγρα ψεν, ὃν ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἀπέστειλαν. ἐλθὼν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ∆ημοφίλῳ ἐδήλωσεν ἢ ἀποστῆναι τῆς Ἀρείου πλάνης ἢ ταχέως τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐξελθεῖν. ὁ δὲ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν Ἀρειανῶν συνάξας ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ἐκκλησίαζεν, ἔχων καὶ Λού κιον τὸν Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπον Ἀρειανὸν σὺν αὐτῷ. καὶ οὕτω λοιπὸν ὁ θεῖος Γρηγόριος, μεθ' ὧν αὐτὸς τὴν ὀρθόδοξον πίστιν 1.553 ἐφώτισε, τὰς ἐκκλησίας πάσας παρέλαβε, τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη καὶ μικρόν τι πρὸς κατασχόντων αὐτὰς τῶν Ἀρειανῶν. Τῷ εʹ ἔτει Θεοδοσίου ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ ἔτεκε γυνὴ ἐν ταὐτῷ παιδία τέσσαρα ἀρρενικά· ἐπέζησε δὲ μῆνας δύο, καὶ ἀπέθανεν ἓν ἐπὶ ἑνὶ τὰ τέσσαρα. Τῷ ʹ ἔτει ἡ μεγάλη καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ ἁγία δευτέρα σύνοδος τῶν ἑκατὸν πεντήκοντα ὀρθοδόξων ἐπισκόπων ἐν Κωνσταντινου πόλει συνηθροίσθη πρὸς βεβαίωσιν τῶν ἐν Νικαίᾳ δογματισθέν των καὶ κατὰ Μακεδονίου τοῦ πνευματομάχου· ὑπῆρχον δὲ Τι μόθεος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Μελέτιος Ἀντιοχείας, Κύριλλος Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ Γρηγόριος ὁ θεολόγος. ἀναθεματίζεται δὲ Μακεδό νιος κατὰ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος βλασφημῶν, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ Σα βέλλιος καὶ Ἀπολινάριος, ἔτι δὲ Ἄρειος καὶ Εὐσέβιος ὁ Νικομηδείας Εὐζώϊός τε καὶ Ἀκάκιος, Θεόγνις καὶ Εὐφρόνιος καὶ οἱ λοι ποὶ αἱρετικοί. ἀπέχει δὲ ἡ δευτέρα σύνοδος ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης ἔτη ξʹ. Γρηγορίῳ δὲ τῷ θεολόγῳ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν Κωνσταντινου πόλεως ἡ σύνοδος ἐκύρωσεν ὡς πολλὰ καμόντι καὶ τῆς λώβης τῶν αἱρέσεων τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ἐλευθερώσαντι. τινὰς δὲ τῶν ἐξ Αἰγύ πτου μαθὼν ὁ μακαριώτατος τῷ πράγματι φθονήσαντας, τὸν συντακτήριον ἐπιδειξάμενος λόγον ἑκουσίως τοῦ θρόνου τῆς βα σιλίδος ὑπεχώρησε, δύο χρόνους μόνον ταύτης ἐπισκοπήσας.

Νεκτάριον ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἡ σύνοδος προχειρίζονται, ἀβάπτιστον ἕως τότε τυγχάνοντα. προσέθηκε δὲ τῷ συμβόλῳ καὶ τὴν θεο 1.554 λογίαν τοῦ πνεύματος. ἐξέθετο δὲ καὶ κανόνας ἐν οἷς τῷ θρόνῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως τὰ πρεσβεῖα Ῥώμης ἀπένειμε. τότε καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ τοῦ προδρόμου ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἤχθη, καὶ τὸ