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Modern Description: A very fine church, predating Hagia Sophia and misnamed "Little Hagia Sophia". The inscription reads: Other sovereigns have honoured dead men whose labour was unprofitable, but our sceptered Justinian, fostering piety, honours with a splendid abode the servant of Christ, Creator of all things, Sergius. Neither the burning breath of fire, nor the sword, nor any other constraint of torments disturbed him; but he endured to be slain for the sake of Christ, the God, gaining by his blood heaven as his home. May he in all things guard the rule of the sleepless sovereign, and increase the power of the God-crowned Theodora whose mind is adorned with piety, whose constant toil lies in unsparing efforts to nourish the destitute. (CIG 4.8639 [tr. C. Mango])
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Hagia_Sophia
Wikidata ID: Q1144576
Trismegistos Geo: 478

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