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ISBN 3110088088, 9783110088083</ref> to Irene because of her work in supporting iconolatry. This letter became the beginning of the misconception, that Irene is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. However this claim is not supported by the Minaion, the "Lives of Saints" by [[Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain|Nikodemos the Hagiorite]], or any other relative book of the Orthodox Church. However, some Western sources <ref>Vita Irenes, 'La vie de l'impératrice Sainte Irène', ed. F. Halkin, Analecta Bollandiana, 106 (1988) 5-27; see also W.T. Treadgold, 'The Unpublished Saint's Life of the Empress Irene', Byzantinische Forschungen, 7 (1982) 237-51. </ref> still cite Irene as a saint of the Orthodox Church.
After her deposition, the forces for iconoclasm returned to power, finally to be defeated under another strong iconodule iconolater leader, the Empress Theodora.Theodore S
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