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Anthusa of Constantinople

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30: 213:. However, Anthusa declined the offer. At court, she wore clothes befitting her position as the late emperor's daughter, but underneath her elaborate clothes, she wore a 163:, and asked for her prayers due to the difficulty of the empress' pregnancy. The abbess predicted the birth of twins, and the daughter was named in her honor. 205:
and did not follow the emperor's orders. After the death of her father, Anthusa used all her personal property to help the poor and the orphaned. The devout
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According to one source, Anthusa lived to the age of fifty-two, and died in 801 AD. Other sources claim that she died in 808 at the age of fifty-seven.
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in the Orthodox Church are 12 and 18 April, while her feast in the Catholic Church is 27 July. In the Catholic Church, Anthusa is patroness of
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Constantine V and one of his wives. Details about her Anthusa's birth are uncertain. According to one source, she and her brother, the future
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her mother and rule out the possibility of being a twin, given that it is known for certain that Leo was born on the former date.
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born on 25 January 750 to Constantine's first wife (i.e.
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27 July (Catholic) and 12 & 18 April (Orthodox)
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Constantinople
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Feast
Greek
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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feast days
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abbeys
Constantine V
Paphlagonia
abbess
Anthusa of Mantinea
icons
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Byzantine Emperor
Emperor Leo the Khazar
twins
Tzitzak
Eudokia
age
monasticism
Empress Irene
Constantine VI
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