With Heraclius away campaigning, Khosrow sent Shahrbaraz with an army to assist the Avars, who dragged massive siege engines toward Constantinople's walls. Some 80,000 barbarians besieged the city, defended by only 12,000 cavalry and all the city's citizens. The Patriarch Sergius processed daily around the walls with an icon of the Virgin Mary. The siege failed: the enemy fleet was ambushed and destroyed, Theodore crushed the Persian general Shaheen, and the Avars retreated.
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Episode 10 (44 mentions)
With Heraclius away campaigning, Khosrow sent Shahrbaraz with an army to assist the Avars, who dragged massive siege engines toward Constantinople's walls. Some 80,000 barbarians besieged the city, defended by only 12,000 cavalry and all the city's citizens. The Patriarch Sergius processed daily around the walls with an icon of the Virgin Mary. The siege failed: the enemy fleet was ambushed and destroyed, Theodore crushed the Persian general Shaheen, and the Avars retreated.
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