ions for popular heroes.

NOTE

The first edition of _Ancient and Modern Constantinople_ was published
in 1824. In it there is no mention of any tomb in the church of S.
Theodosia. The second edition of that work appeared in 1844, and there
the author speaks of a tomb in the church, and suggests that it was
the tomb of some martyr in the iconoclastic persecution. The
patriarch's letter to Scarlatus Byzantius was written in 1852, and
published by the latter in 1862. In that letter the patriarch reports
for the first time the tradition that the tomb in S. Theodosia was the
tomb of Constantine Palaeologus. In 1851 a Russian visitor to
Constantinople, Andrew Mouravieff, who published an account of his
travels, says that in the church of S. Theodosia he was shown a tomb
which the officials of the mosque assured him was the tomb of the last
Christian emperor of the city.[291] Lastly, but not least, in 1832 the
church of S. Theodosia underwent repairs at the Sultan's orders, and
then a neglected tomb was discovered in the church by the Christian
architect who had charge of the work of restoration, Haji Stephen
Gaitanaki Maditenou (see letter of the patriarch).[292] It is
difficult to resist the impression that the discovery of the tomb at
that time gave occasion for the fanciful conjectures current among
Turks and Greeks in regard to the body interred in the tomb. See the
article of Mr. Siderides, who gives the facts just mentioned, without
drawing the inference I have suggested.

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[257] Phrantzes, p. 254; Pusculus, iv. 190.

[258] _De Bospora Thracio_, vi. c. 2.

[259] _Tuerkisches Tagebuch_, pp. 358, 454; Patr. Constantius, p. 13.

[260] Constant. Christ. iv. 190.

[261] Synax., May 29.--

[Greek: Keras kriou kteinon se, Theodosia,
ophthe neon soi tes Amaltheias keras].

[262] Banduri, ii. p. 34.

[263] Codinus, _De S. Sophia_, p. 147.

[264] _Itin. russes_, p. 104.

[265] _Ibid._ p. 125.

[266] _Ibid._ p. 233.

[267] _Ibid._ p. 162.

[268] _Itin. russes_, p. 205.

[269] _Esq. top._ parags. 68, 69.

[270] Pachym. vol. i. p. 365; _Chroniques graeco-romaines_, pp. 96, 97.

[271] Nicet. Chon. p. 752.

[272] Synax. March 25, May 29 (a day sacred to two saints named
Theodosia), July 8.

[273] _Itin. russes_, p. 205. No