...Paroma Chatterjee This article looks closely at the report of a miracle that occurred in eleventh-century Constantinople in which the veil covering an icon of the Theotokos (Virgin) at the Blachernae church lifted itself miraculously. The report, scripted by the Byzantine polymath Michael Psellos...

... with relics of the true cross in the emperor’s church, the Blachernae, make the Crucifix- ion eternally present in the city — the city nowadays being Paris, since these were removed to the Sainte-Chapelle; relics of saints mark the saints’ actual company; the holiest of holy icons, the Hodegetria...