Chronicle of Edessa

...commanded and dismissed him. And Macedonius was appointed in his stead.

1 In the year 811, swarms of locusts descended and destroyed the entire yield of the year.

In the year 813, a fire appeared in the sky in the northern region, and it was bright all night long, on the twenty-second of Ab August.

In the year 814, Kavadh, King of the Persians, came against the city of Amida in Mesopotamia and besieged it on the fifth of Tishrin Qadhim October. And on the ninety-seventh day of the siege, he took it by the sword and captivity.

In Elul September of that same year, he came against the city of Edessa, but he did no damage to it by the grace of God, except that he burned the temple of Mar Sergius and the temple of the Confessors in the northern region.

2 In the year 821, on the Sabbath of the Resurrection Easter Saturday, Peter, Bishop of Edessa, passed away, and Paul was appointed in his stead in the month of Kanun December.

3 In the twenty-first year of the reign of Emperor Anastasius, he ordered that the reliquary of the martyr Euphemia be opened, and the book volume in which those who gathered at Chalcedon wrote should be taken from it and burned.

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1 Year 811. What is narrated in our Chronicle here and in the following years (813, 814) is described more fully in Joshua the Stylite, page 272.
2 Sabbath of the Resurrection: namely, the 10th of April, upon which the Sabbath of the Resurrection fell in the year of Christ 510.
3 Reliquary of Euphemia. These events are narrated somewhat differently by Theophanes under the year of the Incarnation according to the Alexandrians 504, beginning in September of the year of Christ 511, in which the twenty-first year of Anastasius fell. The impious Emperor, he says, strove to receive and tear apart the authentic records of the events at Chalcedon through the aid of the Master (Celer) from Macedonius; but Macedonius had placed them, marked with a seal, upon the Altar, which Calepodius the Eunuch, the OEconomus of the Great Church, finally stole secretly and brought to the Emperor.

...he cast out, and appointed Macedonius in his place.

LXXVIII. In the year 811, clouds of locusts poured forth and destroyed and consumed the entire produce of the year.

LXXIX. In the year 813, a brilliant fire appeared in the northern region, which was seen to burn all night on the twenty-second of August.

LXXX. In the year 814, Kavadh, King of the Persians, besieged the city of Amida in Mesopotamia on the 5th of October, which he conquered on the ninety-seventh day of the siege.

LXXXI. In the month of September of the same year, he besieged Edessa; yet, by the benefit of God, he brought no destruction upon it: he only burned the Temple of Saint Sergius and the northern Basilica of the Confessors.

LXXXII. In the year 821, on the Sabbath of the Resurrection, Peter, Bishop of Edessa, rested, and Paul was substituted for him.

LXXXIII. In the twenty-first year of his reign, Anastasius ordered the reliquary of the martyr Euphemia to be opened, so that the volume which the Synod of Chalcedon had deposited in that chest might be extracted from it and burned. But when...