This second volume in the series Byzantine Saints' Lives in Translation introduces saints who were active during the period of the iconoclastic controversy in Byzantium (726-843). For almost a century and a half, theological and popular opinions were strongly divided on the question of the manufacture and veneration of icons of Christ, the Virgin, and saints. Iconodules, or defenders of icons, argued that the incarnation of Christ meant that He could be circumscribed, while a series of emperors imposed on the empire a policy of iconoclasm, literally the "breaking of images," claiming that Christ, as divine, could not be depicted in human form. Among the holy men and women featured in this volume are several who opposed imperial edicts and suffered for their defense of images: the nun Theodosia, who valiantly led a group of women in the effort to save the famous icon of Christ Chalkites over the palace gate and became the first iconodule martyr; Anthousa of Mantineon, abbess of a...

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