Chalcedon
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Sep 17, 2026
Todd WagnerHOST
I mean, the very first council is not in Nicaea.
Todd WagnerHOST
It's not in Chalcedon.
Todd WagnerHOST
It's in Acts 15.
Todd WagnerHOST
It's in Jerusalem.
Richard BoyleHOST
More than a century after her death, her tomb became connected with one of the most important councils in church history.
Richard BoyleHOST
Euphemia lived in Chalcedon, across the water from Constantinople about the beginning of the 4th century.
Richard BoyleHOST
She came from a Christian family and was still a young woman when Emperor Diocletian's great persecution reached the city.
Richard BoyleHOST
According to the ancient accounts, the governor ordered everyone to participate in the sacrifices to the pagan god Ares.
Richard BoyleHOST
The traditional account describes the rack, fire, and eventually the arena, where she was exposed to wild animals.
Richard BoyleHOST
She died around the year 303.
Richard BoyleHOST
Christians buried her with honor in Chalcedon, and a great basilica eventually rose over her tomb.
Richard BoyleHOST
And that's where the story gets especially interesting.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
He even captured some priests and priestesses, but let them go without ransom.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
On setting out to attack Chalcedon, which had revolted from Athens and received a Lacedaemonian garrison and governor, he heard that its citizens had collected all their goods and chattels out of the country, and committed them for safekeeping to the Bithynians, who were their friends.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
So he marched to the confines of Bithynia with his army, and set on a herald with accusations and demands.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
The Bithynians, in terror, gave up the booty to him, and made a treaty of friendship.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Part 4 of Volume 4 of Plutarch's Parallel Lives This is a LibriVox recording.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by John Burlinson Volume 4 of Plutarch's Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Translated by Bernadotte Perrin Alcibiades Part 4 While Chalcedon was being walled in from sea to sea, Farnabasis came to raise the siege, and at the same time Hippocrates, the Spartan governor, held his forces out of the city and attacked the Athenians.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
But Alcibiades arrayed his army so as to face both enemies at once, put Farnabasis to shameful flight, and slew Hippocrates together with many of his vanquished men.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The Megarians, almost more than any other Greeks, devoted their attention to the Euxine, and the foundation of Byzantium was but one of their many achievements.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Already, seventeen years before Byzantium came into being, another band of Megarian colonists had established themselves at Chalcedon, on the opposite Asiatic shore of the Bosphorus.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The settlers who were destined to found the greater city applied to the oracle of Delphi to give them advice as to the site of their new home, and Apollo, we are told, bade them build their town over against the city of the blind.
speaker_6NARRATOR
They therefore pitched upon the headland by the Golden Horn, reasoning that the Chalcedonians were truly blind to have neglected the more eligible site on the Thracian shore in order to found a colony on the far less inviting Bithynian side of the strait.
speaker_6NARRATOR
From the first, its situation marked out Byzantium as destined for a great future.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Alike from the military and from the commercial point of view no city could have been better placed.
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speaker_12NARRATOR
Maurice armed the city's factions, the Blues and Greens, and strove to defend himself.
speaker_12NARRATOR
But when he saw that no one would fight for him, he fled across the Bosphorus with his wife and children to seek refuge in the Asiatic provinces, where he was less unpopular than in Europe.
TitusHOST
It's all tribe.
TitusHOST
But I think there is a similarity when you look at [tsking] the more specifically post-Council of Chalcedon battles between Alexandria, Antioch, and, um, Constantinople.
TitusHOST
Those were mainly cultural and political battles, and we can see this bec-
DuneHOST
[sighs] Uh, okay, go ahead, continue.
TitusHOST
No, [chuckles] I should, I should say, I think that a lot of times early religious struggles when a church is forming into what it is, are oftentimes based around different cultural groups flexing their own muscles and seeing where it is.
TitusHOST
Uh, or seeing like where their power lies.
TitusHOST
I think that Islam just gets rid of any theological backing for it, which just makes it really funny, 'cause you can look at the Monophysites and the Chalcedonians and go, "Well, you guys have some legitimate theological disputes." When you look at Islam, you go, "What are you d- this is all tribal warfare." I don't really know what point I've been trying to make.
TitusHOST
Don't worry about it.
David WalesNARRATOR
Here she made another detour by way of Pompeiopolis or Soli and Corychus, both on the seacoast, in order to pay a special visit to the tomb of St. Thecla in Isuria, where she met to her great delight her dear friend Marthana, whom she had known in Jerusalem, see note on p. 29.
David WalesNARRATOR
Coming back to Tarsus she made her way without further delay by Mopsocrin, which she calls Mansocrinae, and under Mount Taurus, through Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia, until she arrived at Chalcedon and stopped there for the famous shrine of St. Euphemia, and finally arrived at Constantinople.
David WalesNARRATOR
There she visited the Church of the Apostles, p. 44, and many other of the martyria with which the city abounded, and still indefatigable tells her beloved sisters that while she is preparing this narrative for them there, and also, it seems, drawing up her account of the services and rites which she had witnessed at Jerusalem, she will not actually leave her home till she has crossed into Asia once again and visited the martyrium of St. John at Ephesus.
David WalesNARRATOR
If anything further remains to tell and her life is spared, she will relate it in person or in another letter.
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David WalesNARRATOR
The Dedication Festival See page 46 below.
David WalesNARRATOR
13.
David WalesNARRATOR
Martyr Memorials That of St. Thomas at Edessa is mentioned on page 32, that of St. Elpidius at Haran on page 37, of St. Thecla at Seleucia in Isoria on page 42, of St. Euphemia at Chalcedon on page 43, and of St. John at Ephesus on page 44.
David WalesNARRATOR
Among the other churches and holy sites Aetheria visited, besides those in the Sinai district, mention may be made of the Church of Melchizedek, page 28, the Garden of St. John Baptist at Anon, page 27, and the grave of Job at Carneas, page 29.
WilliamHOST
I wanted to hear about...
WilliamHOST
Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, don't worry.
WilliamHOST
We will do shows in the councils.
WilliamHOST
If you all want it, let us, let your voice be heard.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Really, really good.
William AlbrechtGUEST
And A, on newadvent.org you can read a, you can read the d- not all documents, but you can read plenty of the documents of the great councils like Nicaea, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Trent.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Those are really good.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Highly recommend that.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Really, really good.
William AlbrechtGUEST
And hey, on newadvent.org, you can read not all documents, but you can read plenty of the documents of the great councils like Nicaea, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Trent.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Those are really good.
William AlbrechtGUEST
Highly recommend that.
Jay DyerHOST
It's this guy.
Jay DyerHOST
And this is precisely what I'd like to first discuss with you, maybe put a challenge forward is, I would argue that in the first seven centuries, the model that we see really clarified, especially by the Seventh Ecumenical Council, is not one where the Bishop of Rome in any way has any temporal authority or power whatsoever rather there is pretty clearly the Byzantine Symphonia model that's outlined for example in the statements of the council between the Pope and the Emperor the way that the Seventh Ecumenical Council calls the Emperor the God ordained Emperor and so he has his sphere which is the temporal sphere but Chalcedon very clearly is In Canon 7, and I understand that in your view and your system, you would not think that the papacy is necessarily bound by the canons.
Jay DyerHOST
You would say he's above the canons.
Jay DyerHOST
But my argument would be that there's nothing in Chalcedon that in the canonical language in any way limits this stricture to everybody but the pope.
Jay DyerHOST
In fact...
Jay DyerHOST
The way the canon is worded, and I'll mention Canon 7 because it says very clearly that those who have been enrolled in the clergy or have been made monks may not accept military or any secular dignity, and anyone who presumes to do so shall be anathematized.
Jay DyerHOST
Now, I understand in the sphere of Rome, with the collapse of the West, with the barbarians, and with the moving of the imperial capital to Byzantium, Constantinople, that there was this vacuum and that the papal states arise out of that vacuum.
Jay DyerHOST
I'm aware of all that.
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