De angelo custode

With his spiritual eyes, Macarios saw a guardian angel weeping outside a brothel at Constantinople for his charge who was defilling himself within. The man's freewill prevented the angel's intervention. The angel was praying that the man would repent of his own freewill and thus grant him a day of happiness. 
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Over the Imperial Gate from the narthex to the church Leo VI, the Wise (886-912), is thus shown prostrated at the feet of Christ with medallions of the Virgin and an Archangel above. The Archangel no doubt symbolizes the belief that the chuch of Hagia Sophia was built with divine aid while Angels watched.


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