July 2, 2014 The Placing of the Precious Robe of our Most Holy Lady and Mother of God in the Church at Blachernae in Constantinople
Published on: June 23, 2014

07-02-depositionoftherobeDuring the reign of Emperor Leo the Great (458-471 A.D.), Empress Verina and Patriarch Gennadius, two noblemen from Constantinople, Galibus and Candidus, traveled throughout the Holy Land to venerate and to worship before the holy shrines. In Nazareth, they stopped for a while at the home of a Jewish maiden who kept the girdle of…

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