The line attributed to the Emperor is the line those very feet whose sound Eve heard at the dusk in Paradise and hid herself in fear Kassiani emerged when the emperor was gone, read what he had written and finished the hymn. When he was done reading, he sat and added one line to the hymn then he left. Theophilus felt very sad, cried, and regretted that for a moment of pride he rejected such a beautiful and intellectual woman then he noticed the papers on the table and read them. He looked for her but she was not there she was hiding in a closet, watching him. Theophilus found her cell and entered it alone. She left the unfinished hymn on the table. She was still in love with him but was now devoted to God and hid away because she did not want to let her old passion overcome her monastic vow. Kassiani was alone in her cell, writing her Hymn when she realized that the commotion she heard was because the imperial retinue had arrived. Tradition says that in his later years the Emperor Theophilus, still in love with Kassiani, wished to see her one more time before he died, so he rode to the monastery where she resided. She wrote many hymns for liturgies the most famous being the eponymous Hymn of Kassiani, sung every Holy Wednesday (liturgically actually chanted late in the evening of Holy Tuesday). This insulted the emperor and she was rejected and he chose Theodora as his wife. Tradition tells us that when Theophilus, astonished by her beauty, selected her, he said through a woman sin came to the world St Kassiani responded and by a woman, salvation came to the world. At a yound age she was placed in a contest for bride to Emperor Theophilus. She was born between 805 and 810 in Constantinople into an wealthy family and grew to be exceptionally beautiful and intelligent. Saint Kassiani was a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer especially known as the composer of the Hymn of Kassiani. Orthodox icon of Saint Kassiane the Hymnographer. Kalliope received the incorrupt crown of glory, and entered into the joy of her Bridegroom Christ. In the end, they beheaded her, and thus St. Thus, having been whipped mercilessly, and having had her breasts cut off, they burned her with lit torches, and poured vinegar and salt on her wounds. This enraged the eparch, who saw that his hopes were proving false, ordered that she be immediately be tortured terribly until death. But Kalliope remained indifferent to his promises and unshakable in her faith. He immediately observed Kalliope's beauty, and was occupied by evil thoughts and desires, and sought with promises and flattery to convince her to fulfill his guilty desires. During the persecution of Christians of that era, she was arrested and led before the eparch for judgment. She was known for her bodily and spiritual beauty, and also for her clear and deep piety. It is unknown where the Holy Martyr Kalliope was from, who suffered during the years of the Emperor Decius (249-251 AD). Orthodox icon of Saint Kalliope, Kalliopi, Calliope.
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