Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius)

Arcadia (3 April 400  444) was the third daughter of Emperor Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia and a member of the Theodosian dynasty.

Life

Her next sibling was the male heir and future Emperor Theodosius II. Following the example of her older sister Aelia Pulcheria she took a vow of virginity, but unlike her never got married, devoting herself to religion. In Constantinople, she ordered the construction, near the Gate of Saturninus, [1] of a monastery dedicated to Saint Andrew. The building, named also Rodophylion (Greek: Ροδοφύλιον) lay about 600 m. west of the gate.[2] Heavily transformed, the church of the monastery is now the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque of Istanbul.[2]

References

  1. Janin (1953), 34. "A gate of the now vanished Constantinian wall of the city."
  2. 1 2 Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 172.

Sources

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