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Church of the Virgin of Blachernae (Istanbul)

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[[Image:Byzantine-Constantinople.jpg|right|thumb|250px| Blachernae: at the northern point of Constantinople]]
Emperor Leo I also built the circular pareklision ''Hagia Soros'' ([[chapel]]), next to the church to contain the holy [[Protection of the Mother of God|robe]] and girdle of the Virgin Mary, brought from Palestine in 458 (or 473). The chapel of the Virgin's robe was covered in silver and considered a "reliquary of architectural dimensions." Lay people were not allowed inside but could pray in the main church.<ref>[http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/subject/hd/fak7/hist/o1/logs/byzans-l/log.started941201/mail-21.html ''ODB''] 3:1929.</ref> This very shrine housed the miracle-working icon of the '''''Blachernitissa'''''.
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