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By 435, after seven years in Corinth, Patapios left his skete in the Geranian mountaints to resume his journey to Constantinople taking with him the monk Sechnuti. In Constantinople, they secretly went to the Monastery of [[Church of the Virgin of Blachernae (Istanbul)|Blachernae]], where he obtained a cell in the city wall. patapios kept his identity a secret and resumed a life of strict fasting, vigil and prayer under the guise of a simple monk.
Here he performed many miracles of healing. After a life adorned with virtue and miracles, he died at a great age of eighty-three (83) in 463 and was buried by his disciples in the [[Church of John the Baptist (Constantinople)|church of St. John the Baptist in Constaninople]] of Petras (of Stone) which was under the protection of the royal family of Constantinople, Palaiologoi, and especially of '''[[Ipomoni of Loutraki|Saint Hipomoni]]'''(Saint Patience) who was the mother of the last emperor of Byzantium, Constantine Palaiologos.
Since the saint's repose, the Church has carefully preserved the stories of his life and his sacred relics. One thousand years after the repose of the saint, when the Turks captured Constantinople, his relics where removed and taken to the little cave-skete in Corinth (as he had requested during his lifetime). The saint's body was hidden behind a western wall in the cave facing the iconostasis and chapel they built.