And, having sat for a while, they stood up, and the metropolitan ordered the two archimandrites and the abbot to bring to him from the analogion on a golden platter the cross (with a particle) of the life-giving tree, on which our lord jesus christ was crucified, and which the greek tsar constantine manamakh sent for presentation to the great russian princes with barmas and a cap with the ephesian metropolitan neophytos and other envoys. Date: 16th century.
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