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the church of Constantinople to tonsure Maria,and he did not excommunicate Josephus (30),who had actually celebrated the marriage. Headopted this temporising policy from fear ofdriving Constantine over to the Iconoclasts, butPlato the abbat of Saccundion, and his nephewTheodore the Studite, the leaders of the monasticparty, disapproved of his conduct as a sacrificeof principle to expediency, and withdrew fromcommunion with him. They also ventured toexcommunicate the emperor himself, for whichthey were imprisoned or banished. The fall ofConstantine and the accession of Irene in A.D.797, changed the whole position. The banishedmonks were recalled and entered the city intriumph, the patriarch and empress going outto welcome Theodoras, Josephus was degradedby Tarasius from the priesthood, and peace wasrestored to the church.

The only subsequent action recorded of Tar-asius was his crowning Stauracius, the son ofthe emperor Nicephorus, in Dec. A.D. 803.He died on Feb. 25th, a.d. 806, on which day he iscommemorated. He was buried in the monas-tery of All Saints at the mouth of the BlackSea, which he had founded himself. His lifewas written by his contemporary the deaconIgnatius, who praises his charity to the poor,and the discipline he maintained among hisclergy, whom he forbade to frequent the chariotraces of the circus. A Latin translation of hislife is given in AA. SS. Feb. iii. 576, and re-printed in Migne, Pair. Gr. xcviii. 1385, wherehis letters, and his address to the people on hiselection, and a sermon attributed to him,preached on the day of the Presentation of theVirgin, are collected (Theophanes, 386-390,396, 397, 406, 407 ; Vita S. Theod. Stud. 19,25, 26, 43 ; S. Tneud. Stud. Fpp. 53 ; in Pair.Gr. xcix. 137, 141, 156, 1101 ; Or. Christ, i.239). [F. D.]

TARBULA, martyr. [Pherbutua.]

TARCONDIMANTUS (Tarcodimaxtus,or Tarcodunan i'us), bishop of Aegae in CiliciaSecunda, one of the prelates of the Arian partypresent at Nicaea (Labbe, ii. 52); and also atthe council of Antioch “ in Encaeniis,” a.d. 341(ibid. 560); (Philostorg. ap. Nicetam. Thes. Ord.Fid. v. 7 ; Le Quien, Or. Christ, ii. 895).

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TARSIANS (Tharsenses), a name appliedby St. Jerome to the followers of the semi-Arian Silvanus, bishop of Tarsus, in a letter ad-dressed to Damasus about the year 376. [Sil-vanus (6)] (Ceill. vii. 583.) [G. T. S.]

TARSINUS, priest of the church of Suedra,in Pamphylia, in response to whose appeal forhelp against theArians, St. Epiphanius wrote hiswork called Ancoratus, cf. Epiphanius (1) t. ii.p. 2; and his works in Migne’s Patr. Grace.t. sliii. p. 14. [G. T. S.]

TASGODRUGI, heretics in the enumerationof Sophronius (Mansi, xi. 850 n), named in theversion of Hardouin (iii. 1291 n) TaanoSovpyoi(for TatrKoSftouyoL) and Abrodici. [Ascomtu-

CITAE.] [O. H.]

TASO, second abbat of St. Vincent ad Vultur-num. lie and his brother Tato and their cousin

TATFRITH

Paldo were of a noble family of BeneventumThey determined to leave their homes and enteimonasteries in Gaul. When they crossed theBeneventan frontier, they sent back theirservants and horses, and meeting some betr ?arschanged clothes with them. Arriving at Farfaon their journey the abbat washed their feetand thus discovering that they were diso-uisetfinquired who they were. They told him theirstory and their purpose; he promised to aidthem, and accompanied them to Rome, and thenadvised them to return to Farfa and live theresome time with him in order to learn andpractise the monastic life. In the mean timetheir relations heard where they were, and cameto Farfa, entreating them to return, and not todesert them. When they, on the other hand,replied they must go to Gaul, as they hadvowed, the abbat interposed, declaring that ifthey would take his advice, he would show thema place God had prepared for them. He thendescribed a spot on the Vulturnus, near its source,where there was an oratory dedicated to St.Vincent in the midst of thick woods, andadvised them to take np their abode there.They accordingly did so. Their fame spreadabroad, and numbers came to them desiring toimitate their life. Such was the origin of themonastery of St. Vincent. Paldo, the firstabbat, was succeeded in a.d. 720 by Taso. Thestrictness of his government caused a mutinyamong the monks, who expelled him, and madehis elder brother Tato abbat in his stead. Bothsides appealed to pope Gregory II., who orderedTaso to be reinstated, and imposed a heavypenance on the mutineers. Taso died onJanuary XI, 729, and was succeeded by Tato,The names of Taso and Tato are sometimesconfused. (Autpertus, Vita Paldonis , Tatonis , etTasonis in Script. Her. Lamp 547.) If Leo ofOstia (<?4 r n ‘ Gas. b 4, in Migne, Patr. Lat.clxxxiii. 494) is to be trusted, the three kins-men aided Petronax in his restoration of Al.Cassino (Mabillon, Ann. Ben. xvii. 21, xx. 34,73). [F. D.]

TASSACH (Tassa), bishop of Raholp, inpar. Ballyculter, ce. Down, gave the viaticumto St. Patrick shortly before he died. St. Patrickhad given him the church (Reeves, Keel. Ant .39, 138, 142, 223, 377). He was one of St.Patrick’s three artificers of great endowment,and in the notes on St. Kiac’s Hymn is said tohave first adorned the Baculus Jesu with aprecious covering (Roo/i of Obits G.C. Dublin,p. xiii.; Cotton, Fast. iii. 195). [J. 0.]

TATBERT, a kinsman and companion ofWilfrid 1., bishop of York, who received, by hisbequest, the monastery of Ripon, of which hebecame provost or abbat. Tatbert was also oneof those to whom Wilfrid gave his last instruc-tions. It was at the request of Tatbert andAcca that Eddi undertook to write a life of Wil-frid, in which Tatbert was eminently qualifiedto assist him. Tatbert occurs in the Liber Vitaeof Durham (p. 6). (Eddi, Vita Wilfr., Pref. andCapp. 62-5.) [J* £•]

TATFRITH, a pupil of St. Hilda, whomBede describes as a most strenuous and learnedman, of excellent genius, and an inmate of hermonastery. He was elected to the newly con-stituted see of Worcester, in or abcut the yeal