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quel, the beautiful chapel at the south-east end of the church. Before her death she retired from the world and assumed the name Martha in religion.[223] In addition to the figures of the restorers of the church, portraits in mosaic of the Emperor Andronicus and his Empress Anna, as the legends beside the portraits declared, stood on the right of the main entrance to the patriarchate.[224] [Symbol: Cross][Greek: Andronikos en Cho to tho pistos basileus kai autokrator Rhomeon ho palaiologos]. [Symbol: Cross][Greek: Anna en Cho to tho piste augousta he palaiologina]. As both Andronicus II. and his grandson Andronicus III. were married to ladies named Anna, it is not clear which of these imperial couples was here portrayed. The fact that the consort of the former emperor died before the restoration of the church by the protostrator Michael is certainly in favour of the view supported by Mr. Siderides that the portraits represented the latter emperor and empress.[224] Why these personages were thus honoured is not explained. Having restored the monastery, Michael Glabas entrusted the direction of its affairs to a certain monk named Cosmas, whom he had met and learned to admire during an official tour in the provinces. In due time Cosmas was introduced to Andronicus II., and won the imperial esteem to such an extent as to be appointed patriarch.[226] The new prelate was advanced in years, modest, conciliatory, but, withal, could take a firm stand for what he considered right. On the other hand, the piety of Andronicus was not of the kind that adheres tenaciously to a principle or ignores worldly considerations. Hence occasions for serious differences between the two men on public questions were inevitable, and in the course of their disputes the monastery of the Pammakaristos, owing to its association with Cosmas, became the scene of conflicts between Church and State. [Illustration: PLATE XXXVII. (1) S. MARY PAMMAKARISTOS. INNER NARTHEX, LOOKING SOUTH. (2) S. MARY PAMMAKARISTOS. THE DOME, LOOKING WEST. _To face page 142._] No act of Andronicus shocked the public sentiment or his day more painfully than the political alliance he cemented by giving his daughter Simonis, a mere child of six years, as a bride to the Kraal of Servia, who was forty years her senior, and had been already married three times, not always, it was alleged, in the most regular manner.[227] Cosmas did everything in h
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