Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture

by Alexander Van Millingen; Walter S. George; Arthur E. Henderson; Ramsay Traquair

[89] Du Cange, iv. p. 135.

[90] Cedren. i. p. 635; Procop. Secret History, c. 6; Procop. De aed. ii. p. 234; Theoph. p. 339; Theoph. Cont. p. 154.

[91] Cedren. i. pp. 642-43. The Synaxaria (Sirmondi) speak of three churches of S. Sergius, in or near Constantinople; ἐν ταῖς Σοφίαις, Oct. 7; πλησίον τῆς Αετίου κινστέρνης, Nov. 9 (near Monastery of Manuel, p. 258); πέραν ἐν Ῥουφινιαναῖς, May 29 (near Kadikeui).

[92] Page 220.

[93] Baronius, Annales ecclesiastici, tom. ix. p. 253, Luccae, 1741: 'quam basilicam eorum hic in domo nostra sub nomine praedictorum venerabilium constructam, illustrare et illuminare large dignemini.'

[94] Ibid. p. 254.

[95] De aed. i. p. 186.

[96] Ut supra, καὶ ἔπειτα καὶ τέμενος ἄλλο ἐκ πλαγίου τούτῳ παρακείμενον (i.e. SS. Sergius and Bacchus).

[97] Baronius, x. p. 43.

[98] Theoph. p. 349; Malalas, p. 485.