Certainty: 2 Lazaros of Galesion predicted troubles caused by banishment of empress Zoe by Michael V Certainty: 2
Certainty: 3 The people demanded violent punishment for Michael V: Zoe demurred, but Theodora gave the order Certainty: 3
Certainty: 3 Michael V & his uncle Konstantinos were both dragged from the Stoudios church & blinded
Michael V and his uncle Konstantinos were forced out of their asylum in the church at Stoudios and dragged by the legs (or possibly on donkeys?) to the Sigma, where the executioner prepared the tools for blinding. Konstantinos, seeing that his nephew Michael V was terrified and begging for mercy, asked to be blinded first, and told the crowd to stand back and watch his bravery. As the executioner tied him down, he asked to be nailed down if he moved. Konstantinos was blinded first, then Michael V, who had to be bound very firmly. This quenched the anger of the mob, who left them there and went back to Theodora