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Key Facts |
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| Born |
752 |
| Location |
Athens |
| Bloodline |
Unknown |
| Married |
Yes |
| Children |
Yes |
| Position |
Byzantine Empress (797-802) |
| Died |
August 803 |
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Source of Facts and Important Announcement |
| Status |
Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven. |
| Date of formal Beatification |
Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012. |
| Source of Facts |
Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint. |
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Background |
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Originally from unknown noble Greek family, Irene was married to Leo IV, son of Emperor Constantine V in 769 at the age of 17. |
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In 771 she gave birth to a son, the future Constantine VI. When Leo IV died prematurely in 780, he left her as sole guardian of the Byzantine Empire and the nine-year-old Constantine VI. |
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Irene was almost immediately confronted with a conspiracy to raise to the throne the Caesar Nikephoros, a half-brother of Leo IV. To overcome this challenge, she had Nikephoros and his co-conspirators ordained as priests, and ordered them to give communion on Christmas day.
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Irene next had to subdue a rebellion led by Elpidios, the governor of Sicily. A first fleet sent against him was defeated in 781, but the second succeeded in driving the rebels into Africa in 782. |
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Her most notable act was the restoration of the orthodox veneration of icons or images, a policy which she had always secretly favoured, though compelled to abjure it in her husband's lifetime. Having elected Tarasios, one of her partisans, to the patriarchate in 784, she summoned two church councils. The first of these, held in 786 at Constantinople, was frustrated by the opposition of the soldiers. The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome. |
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