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Righteous Theodora the Empress Restorer of the Icons

Also known as Empress Theodora · Theodora the Iconodule

Wife of the iconoclast emperor Theophilus who, after his death, convened the council that restored the veneration of the holy icons in 843, the event celebrated as the Triumph of Orthodoxy.

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Notes

Her restoration of the icons is commemorated on the first Sunday of Great Lent (Triumph of Orthodoxy).

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org)