After her Dormition [Falling-asleep], the Holy Theotokos gave her girdle [sash] to the Apostle Thomas. That girdle was later brought to Constantinople and kept in a sealed reliquary in the church of the Mother of God at Blachernae, the royal foundation [Zaduzbina] of Empress Pulcheria. This reliquary was never opened until the time of Emperor…
August 31, 2014 Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Octoechos Tone 3 The Placing of the Sash of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God in Calcoprateia (942)
Published on: August 23, 2014