Psellos asked Nikolaos Skleros for help over the Acheirpoietos for the Theotokos (not just Psellos), & Medikion

Summary:
The best way to virtue and a good life (Psellos told Nikolaos Skleros) was devotion to the Theotokos, her icons and mysterious images like those of the Acheiropoietos monastery outside the capital. He should also use his office to help his friends, supporting the church there, beautifying it or caring for its lands (not just because it belonged to Psellos). He also wrote to Nikolaos about his monastery of Medikion. It had no place in a list of earthly delights, lying amid a crown of hills, with views blocked to land and sea, like a ship's hold; the worst is that the sea is very close, but invisible behind the hills 
Dates:
1063 (Uncertain) 
Michael Psellos (named Konstantinos till tonsure in 1054) (Michael 61)
  • The best way to virtue and a good life (he told Nikolaos 2104) was devotion to the Theotokos, her icons and mysterious images like those of the Acheiropoietos monastery outside the capital (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 124, 148.6-15
  • He recommended that Nikolaos 2104 devote himself to the Theotokos and the Acheiropoietos monastery Psellos Letters (K - D) 124, 148.6-149.6
  • The Theotokos asked Nikolaos 2104 also to support her church, beautifying it or caring for its lands; Psellos told him to use his office to help friends - especially the Acheiropoietos, by caring for its estates (not as belonging to Psellos) (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 124, 148.15-149.6
  • He wrote to Nikolaos 2104 about Medikion monastery Psellos Letters (K - D) 125, 149.7-27
  • Medikion monastery (he told Nikolaos 2104) has no place in a list of earthly delights, lying amid a crown of hills, with views blocked to land and sea, like a ship’s hold; the worst is that the sea is very close, but invisible behind the hills (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 125, 149.7-27
Nikolaos Skleros (Nikolaos 2104)
  • Michael 61 suggested that he devote himself to the Theotokos and her images like those of the Acheiropoietos monastery outside the capital, and also support the church, beautifying it or caring for its lands (not as belonging to Psellos) (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 124, 148.6-149.6
  • He received a letter from Michael 61 about Medikion monastery (:) Psellos Letters (K - D) 125, 149.7-27