Sunday 5th March marked the “Triumph of Orthodoxy”, a feast celebrating the restoration of the icons to the Orthodox Church following successive periods of iconoclasm in the Byzantine era. According to Wikipedia: “After the death of the last iconoclast emperor, Theophilos, his young son Michael III, with his mother the regent Theodora and Patriarch Methodios, summoned the Synod of Constantinople in 843 to bring peace to the Church. At the end of the first session, all made a triumphal procession from the Church of Blachernae to Hagia Sophia, restoring the icons to the church. This occurred on 11 March, 843 (which that year was the first Sunday of Lent). The Synod decreed that a perpetual feast on the anniversary of that day should be observed each year on the First Sunday of Great Lent, and named the day ‘the Sunday of Orthodoxy’.”