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Constantinople: Hagia Sophia
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On May 22, 1453, the moon, symbol of Constantinople, rose in dark eclipse, fulfilling a prophecy on the city's demise. Four days later, the whole city was blotted out by a thick fog, a condition unknown in that part of the world in May. When the fog lifted that evening, a strange light was seen playing about the dome of the Hagia Sophia, and from the city walls lights were seen in the countryside to the West, far behind the Turkish camp. The light around the dome was interpreted by some as the Holy Spirit departing from the Cathedral, while there was a distant hope that the lights were the campfires of the troops of John Hunyadi who had come to relieve the city.[42]
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Gregory Referendarius was the archdeacon of Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople in 944 CE, when the Cloth of Edessa was transferred from Edessa to Constantinople, the Byzantine capital. On the day after the cloth’s arrival, Gregory Referendarius preached a sermon that offers important evidence that the cloth was a burial cloth, that it contained a full length image of a man believed to be Jesus, and that it contained bloodstains. One of the bloodstains was clearly from a side wound.
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On the 26th, an unseasonal, thick fog fell on Constantinople. By nightfall, the fog lifted and the Christians were appalled by what they saw: the buildings of the city glowed in ominous shades of red. Even the enormous copper dome of the imposing cathedral, the Hagia Sophia (which has been a mosque ever since) appeared to be engulfed in flames, but it never burned. Phrantzes, a friend of the emperor, wrote that the light remained over the city for an entire night.
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