Document

 1 Intro|         INTRODUCTION.~A.D. 787. ~Emperors -- Constantine VI. And Irene.
 2 Intro|            Synodal Letter to the Emperors. ~Excursus On the Two Letters
 3 Intro|          was called by the Roman Emperors to be an Ecumenical Council.
 4 Intro|       representing the Christian emperors, to wit, that they should
 5 1    |         DIVINE SACRA SENT BY THE EMPERORS CONSTANTINE AND IRENE TO
 6 2    |       laurata" and images of the Emperors when they are sent to cities
 7 2    |          with the other orthodox Emperors venerated it as the head
 8 2    |       your predecessors the holy Emperors acted, so you, too, venerating
 9 2    |    Church, and with the orthodox Emperors who ruled after them, and
10 2    |      embrace their Vicar, as the Emperors who reigned before you of
11 2    |         the bidding of our pious Emperors, went to Rome with the most
12 2    |     pious jussio of our orthodox Emperors.(1) ~And when we were gone,
13 2    |      orthodox faith of the pious emperors. ~And when the most blessed
14 2    |          most tranquil and pious emperors, we beg you will deem them
15 2    |       and truly to our religious Emperors, and to our humility, confirming
16 2    |          pious and most faithful Emperors, Irene a new Helena, and
17 3    |         God-beloved and orthodox Emperors, Constantine and Leo,(2)
18 3    |        his servants our faithful Emperors, and endowed them with the
19 3    |         the bidding of our pious Emperors. So also no prince or secular
20 3    |      Apostles. Many years to the Emperors! They are the light of orthodoxy!
21 3    |       Many years to the orthodox Emperors! God preserve your Empire!
22 5    |          pious and Christ-loving Emperors, Constantine and Irene,
23 5    |        idols. ~Many years to the Emperors, etc., etc. ~
24 7    | especially when the anger of the Emperors and of the Iconoclasts was
25 11   |         a) They attribute to the Emperors a phrase which belongs to