Chronicle of Edessa

...691: In that same year, Theodosius the Great became Emperor. And he, Mar Eulogius, built the temple of Mar Daniel, which is called the House of Mar Domitius.

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In the year 692, Theodosius the Great built the city of Rhefaina in Osrhoëna.

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In the year 693, a synod of one hundred and fifty bishops was gathered in Constantinople.

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In the year 698, Mar Eulogius the bishop departed from this world on the third day of the week of the Passion.

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In the year 705, they brought the chest of Mar Thomas the Apostle to the great temple built in his name, on the twenty-second of Ab, in the days of Mar Cyrus the bishop.

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In the year 706, Theodosius the Great Emperor departed from this world on the seventeenth of the later Kanun. And on the twenty-seventh of Nisan, Arcadius entered Constantinople. And on the eighth of the later Tishrin, his corpse entered.

...in that year, namely, when Theodosius the Great began to rule. And he, Mar Eulogius, built the temple of Saint Daniel, which was called the House of Mar Domitius.

XXXV. In the year 692, Theodosius the Great built the city of Rhefaina in Osrhoëna.

XXXVI. In the year 693, a synod of one hundred and fifty bishops was gathered in Constantinople.

XXXVII. In the year 698, Mar Eulogius the Bishop departed from this world on the third day of the week of the Crucifixion.

XXXVIII. In the year 705, on the 22nd day of August, they brought the chest of Mar Thomas the Apostle into the great temple dedicated to him, in the days of Mar Cyrus the Bishop.

XXXIX. In the year 706, on the 17th of January, Theodosius the Great Emperor departed from this light. On the 27th of April, Arcadius entered Constantinople. On the 8th of November, the corpse...

1. Rhefaina. See above, page 26.

2. Synod. Both the author of our Chronicle and Dionysius affirm that this was celebrated at the beginning of the year of the Greeks 693, that is, from the month of October of the year 381. This was also the opinion of Spondanus, although Socrates reports that it happened in the month of May of the same year, whom Baronius and Pagi follow. But he who described the Treatise of John Maron against the Nestorians and Monophysites erred in designating the time of this Synod, both from the true epoch of Alexander, or the Greeks, and from the year of the Theodosian Empire. For he incorrectly placed the year of Alexander 660 instead of 693, and the second year of Theodosius instead of the third.

3. Feria sexta. Namely, the 23rd of April, on which the sixth day of the week in the Preparation Good Friday fell in the year of Christ 387.

4. Thomas the Apostle. That his sacred body was translated to Edessa is also testified by Rufinus, book 2, chapter 5, whom Jerome and other martyrologists support. From this, the Nestorians of the Indies, who boasted that they had preserved the body of this holy Apostle up to the past century, are strongly refuted, as Pagi well notes at the year 327, number 10. Besides the author of the Life of Saint Ephrem, page 49, Socrates, book 4, chapter 18, and Sozomen, book 6, chapter 18, also make mention of his temple.

5. Theodosius. Socrates, book 5, chapter 26, and book 6, chapter 1, reports the death of Theodosius the Great in the same year and on the same day, where he also describes the solemn procession by which his corpse was brought into the Royal City in these words: "But the body of Theodosius was brought to Constantinople under the same consuls (namely Olybrius and Probinus) on the sixth day before the Ides of November (of the year of the Greeks 707, of Christ 395), and Arcadius his son followed it with the solemn honor of funerals."