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According to an eyewitness, in the ba le for Constantinople in August 626 the Virgin Mary “put fl ight with a single blow the military force of both enemies”,1 namely, Khagan, the king of Avars, and his Persian ally. The miracle of the Theotokos is the main point of the homily that was delivered a er the liberation of the Constantinopolitans from the terror, caused by the siege and a acks by the troops tenfold superior in force. Bearing in mind, what Norman Baynes emphasized,2 I will, neglecting the problem of how to understand Mary’s power, concentrate on her role as it is described in the text to be quoted. This approach o ers by itself, for the the aim of the paper is to show that the famous prooemium of the Akathistos Hymn, ,3 is a product of “the ten days when the defenders of the

ROLE OF THE VIRGIN MARY AT THE SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN 626