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installation	Baths of Constantius/Theodosius
name	Baths of Constantius – Change of function (Easter)
event type	Change of function
start date	404
end date	404 (Fixed date)
date comments	Easter of 404, a few months before John Chrysostom was exiled on the 20th of June 404. Easter 404 should have been on April 18th.
persons	John Chrysostom - User
description	After quarelling with empress Eudoxia over her silver statue, after which she felt personally insulted by Chrysostom, John was condemned on a council just before Easter. As a result, he was not able to go to church, and celebrated Easter in the public Constantiniae baths.
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1	Socrates 439	151	(Church History 6.18) ... the emperor therefore sent to tell John that he could not go to the church (Hagia Sophia), because two synods had condemned him. Accordingly Chrysostom was silenced, and went no more to the church; but those who were of his party celebrated Easter in the public baths which are called Constantinae, and thenceforth left the church.
2	Sozomen 443	412	(Church History 8.21) When the people perceived the plot, they did not use the church on the following day, but celebrated the Paschal feast in the very spacious public baths called after the emperor Constantius.