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St. Tarasius was born and educated in Constantinople. He swiftly advanced to the rank of senator and royal advisor in the court of Emperor Constantine VI, and Constantine's mother, the holy Empress Irene. During the iconoclast disturbances, the holy Patriarch St. Paul the New (August 30), who had formerly supported iconoclasm, repented and resigned his office. After the death of Emperor Leo, St. Paul wanted to restore icon veneration but was not able to accomplish this, since the iconoclasts were still quite powerful.

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  • St. Tarasius was born and educated in Constantinople. He swiftly advanced to the rank of senator and royal advisor in the court of Emperor Constantine VI, and Constantine's mother, the holy Empress Irene. During the iconoclast disturbances, the holy Patriarch St. Paul the New (August 30), who had formerly supported iconoclasm, repented and resigned his office. After the death of Emperor Leo, St. Paul wanted to restore icon veneration but was not able to accomplish this, since the iconoclasts were still quite powerful.
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  • St. Tarasius was born and educated in Constantinople. He swiftly advanced to the rank of senator and royal advisor in the court of Emperor Constantine VI, and Constantine's mother, the holy Empress Irene. During the iconoclast disturbances, the holy Patriarch St. Paul the New (August 30), who had formerly supported iconoclasm, repented and resigned his office. After the death of Emperor Leo, St. Paul wanted to restore icon veneration but was not able to accomplish this, since the iconoclasts were still quite powerful. Irene and Constantine, with Paul's counsel, chose Tarasius to be Paul's successor in the year 783 A.D. Tarasius accepted this rank reluctantly in order to assist Orthodoxy in the struggle against heresies, especially against Iconoclasm. Tarasius was quickly elevated through the ecclesiastical ranks and became patriarch in 784. In the year 787 the Seventh Ecumenical Council was convened in the city of Nicea, with Patriarch Tarasius presiding, and 367 bishops attending. The veneration of holy icons was confirmed at the council. Those bishops who repented of their iconoclasm were again received by the Church. St. Tarasius wisely governed the Church for 22 years. He led a strict ascetic life. He spent all his money on God-pleasing ends, feeding and giving comfort to the aged, to the impoverished, to widows and orphans, and on Holy Pascha he set out a meal for them, and he served them himself. Toward the powerful, Tarasius was decisive in his defense of faith and morals. When Emperor Constantine banished his lawful wife Maria (granddaughter of St. Philaret the Merciful), and sought a blessing from the patriarch for marriage to a kinswoman, Tarasius not only refused him a blessing, but first counseled him, after that reproached him, and finally forbade him to receive Holy Communion. Before his death, devils tried to get the saint to admit to sins that he had not committed. Many saw how Tarasius replied to the demons saying: "I am not guilty of this sin! I am not guilty either of that sin!" Until his weakened tongue could not longer speak, he then began to defend himself with his hands driving away the demons. When he expired on February 25, 806, his face lit up like the sun.
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