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Holy Empress Pulcheria 9/23/2013
She was the daughter of the Emperor Arcadius. She had made a vow to live a life in chastity and as a token to her vow she had had a Holy Table made of gold and precious stones for the cathedral. She ruled together with her brother Theodosius the Younger. She was a zealous Christian, firmly adhering to the Orthodox faith. On her claim the Third Ecumenical Council was convened in Ephesus that anathematized Nestorian heresy. She built the famous Church of the Most Holy Mother of God at Blacherane in Constantinople. On the death of Theodosius, she married the newly elected Emperor Marcian, with whom she lived as brother and sister. She found the holy relics of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste. She fell asleep in the Lord on September 10, 453, in her fifty fifth year.