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Nov. ii.] S. Theodore of the Studium. 279
his letters from his dungeon. He wrote to the Pope, to the
patriarch of Alexandria, to the patriarch of Antioch, to the
abbots of Palestine.
The pious fraud of Nicetas was discovered. No marks of
the scourge had been found on the back of the prisoner. A
base informer named Anastasius hastened to Constantinople
to report against the governor. The emperor had a hundred
strokes given to the old confessor, and shut him up with his
disciple Nicolas in a dark and stinking dungeon. In this
he spent three years, suffering acutely from the cold in
winter and the heat in summer, eaten up by vermin, and
afflicted with hunger; for bread was only given him alternate days, and that was cast into him through a hole. A
man of rank and fortune passing along the road, and looking into the dungeon through the opening, was so horrified
at what he saw, that he bribed the keepers to give Theodore
a sufficiency of food every day. Yet, in spite of the strictness of his guards, Theodore still found means of writing and
despatching letters. In one of these he thus describes his
condition : " After having beaten us with scourges, we two
have been placed in a lofty chamber with the door shut, and
the ladder by which access is got to it removed. Guards
surround it to prevent any one from getting near, and all
who enter the castle are watched. Strict orders are issued
that no one is to give us anything but water and wood. We
live on what is brought us and given us from time to time
by the hole that serves as window. As long as last our
provisions, and what the weekly porter gives us in secret,
we live. When that comes to an end, we shall come to an
end also. God is, notwithstanding, too gracious to us."
In another letter he consoles thirty nuns who had been
driven from their convent and whipped. From him we learn
that a secret police was established for the purpose of hunting out all the refuges of the orthodox. Hired spies were
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| Title | The lives of the saints - 13 |
| Creator | Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) |
| Publisher | J. Grant |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000333 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | . — ft Nov. ii.] S. Theodore of the Studium. 279 his letters from his dungeon. He wrote to the Pope, to the patriarch of Alexandria, to the patriarch of Antioch, to the abbots of Palestine. The pious fraud of Nicetas was discovered. No marks of the scourge had been found on the back of the prisoner. A base informer named Anastasius hastened to Constantinople to report against the governor. The emperor had a hundred strokes given to the old confessor, and shut him up with his disciple Nicolas in a dark and stinking dungeon. In this he spent three years, suffering acutely from the cold in winter and the heat in summer, eaten up by vermin, and afflicted with hunger; for bread was only given him alternate days, and that was cast into him through a hole. A man of rank and fortune passing along the road, and looking into the dungeon through the opening, was so horrified at what he saw, that he bribed the keepers to give Theodore a sufficiency of food every day. Yet, in spite of the strictness of his guards, Theodore still found means of writing and despatching letters. In one of these he thus describes his condition : " After having beaten us with scourges, we two have been placed in a lofty chamber with the door shut, and the ladder by which access is got to it removed. Guards surround it to prevent any one from getting near, and all who enter the castle are watched. Strict orders are issued that no one is to give us anything but water and wood. We live on what is brought us and given us from time to time by the hole that serves as window. As long as last our provisions, and what the weekly porter gives us in secret, we live. When that comes to an end, we shall come to an end also. God is, notwithstanding, too gracious to us." In another letter he consoles thirty nuns who had been driven from their convent and whipped. From him we learn that a secret police was established for the purpose of hunting out all the refuges of the orthodox. Hired spies were ft . , ft |
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