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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gary Waddingham, post: 2979315, member: 73648&quot;]Saturday was the Feast of St. John Chrysostom in Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches.&nbsp; He was bishop or archbishop of Constantinople (the title Patriarch was a few years later) and lived at the end of the fourth century and died in 407.&nbsp; Here is a seal with his picture.&nbsp; Seals are an adjunct of Byzantine coins inasmuch as the skills for deciphering one are closely related to deciphering the other.&nbsp; Also, here is a coin of Eudoxia, his nemesis in Constantinople and the one who caused him to be exiled.&nbsp; You can see by the presence of the manus dei or Hand of God on both the obverse and reverse, she wore her piety somewhat heavily.&nbsp; John called her Jezebel and Herodias, neither term particularly conciliatory.&nbsp; He was a defender of the poor and despised th[ATTACH=full]732752[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]732753[/ATTACH] ose in power who lived lavishly, a saint for our times if ever there was one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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