14 feb 741 anni - Leo IV's wedding in Jerusalem

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When the war with Arabs end, Emperor Leo IV sent word to the Capital that his bride should be sent to Jerusalem, and that she should bring the True Cross. Leo’s fiancée Helena arrived in early 742, and she personally led the procession that placed the Cross inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. When the Cross was put in place Leo and Helena were wed, in a ceremony conducted by the Pope, who had traveled from Rome for this occasion, and the Patriarch from Constantinople, and when the ceremony was completed the soldiers spontaneously declared the girl to be the Augusta.
This was all of course set up in advance, as Leo’s wider goals shifted from restoration of the Empire to permanently winning legitimacy for his dynasty. After the wedding Helena returned to Constantinople, where the Patriarch would give a spectacular sermon about what had happened, and much of the muttering about the barbarian Khazar Empress would die down, for a while at least.

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