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2 unusual facts about Pope Silverius


Cesare Maccari

He painted in tempera: Love crowning the three Graces At the 1878 Turin Exposition, he sent an oil canvas depicting The Deposition of Pope Silverius by Antonina, wife of Belisarius.

Count Belisarius

Graves recounts how Belisarius suffers trying to satisfy the whims of the two rulers, including the confusion following the command of Theodora, a monophysite Christian, to depose Pope Silverius.



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