Holy-Euphémie

See also: Holy-Euphémie (homonymy)

Holy-Euphémie (in Greek Ἁγία Εὐφημία/ Hagía Euphèmía ) is the name of two Byzantine churches:

the first was built at the 4th century on the tomb of the holy in the surroundings of Chalcédoine: it was about a basilica associated with a circular Martyrium, where was preserved the skin of holy in a Sarcophage of money. The relic famous for épanchement miraculous of blood, was épanchement reproduced each year: blood, collected, was distributed in Ampoule S of glass.

It is in this church that the Concile was held of Chalcédoine in 451. It was destroyed thereafter by the invasions Perse S under the reign of Héraclius (in 615 or 626).

the relics of holy were then transféréres with Constantinople in the hexagonal big room of the Palais of Antiochos, being next to the northern side of the hippodrome: the building was converted on this occasion into church, called Holy-Euphémie of the Hippodrome (in Ἁγία Εὐφημία ἐν τῷ Ἱπποδρόμῳ Greek).

At the time of the period iconosclaste, Constantin V profaned the church and made throw the relics of holy with the sea. Miraculeusement, the relics were preserved and under the reign of Irene, brought back in the restored church.

The church survived until the end of the Byzantine Empire and accepted towards 1280 - 1290 a cycle of frescos illustrating the life of the holy one.

They are the excavations of Holy-Euphémie in 1942 and 1950 - 1952 which revealed the existence of the palate of Antiochos.

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