Life
The earliest written accounts of his life were compiled in the 9th century, although there are earlier images of him, and accounts from the 7th century of his miracles. The biographies have Demetrius as a young man of senatorial family who was run through with spears in around 306 AD in Thessaloniki, during the Christian persecutions of the emperor Diocletian or Galerius, which matches his depiction in the 7th century mosaics.
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
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if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
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