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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doubled Eye, post: 3298740, member: 92790&quot;]Great research and information.&nbsp; Growing up in a Greek immigrant family we celebrated the repulsion of the Avar siege each year during Lent, during the Friday evening services called the &quot;Salutations to the Virgin&quot; or &quot;Hairetismi.&quot;&nbsp; We sing the &quot;akathistos&quot; hymn, and every kid is taught in Sunday school that the word akathistos - not sitting down - comes from the Constantinopolitans processing and walking will the siege broke.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Leeni Mari Peltomaa came out with research a few years ago arguing that the hymn dates not from the Avar siege but from the Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ED_cXouKxl8C&amp;pg=PA51&amp;dq=peltomaa+ephesus&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj34eCyg-HfAhUowVkKHT-fBkYQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&amp;q=peltomaa%20ephesus&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ED_cXouKxl8C&amp;pg=PA51&amp;dq=peltomaa+ephesus&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj34eCyg-HfAhUowVkKHT-fBkYQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&amp;q=peltomaa%20ephesus&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=ED_cXouKxl8C&amp;pg=PA51&amp;dq=peltomaa+ephesus&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj34eCyg-HfAhUowVkKHT-fBkYQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&amp;q=peltomaa ephesus&amp;f=false</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Amazing to see a coin from that time and to learn about its connection to the military fallout.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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