The life of St Theophano the Empress
Their happiness was cut short when Leo was falsely accused of plotting against his father's life, and both husband and wife were imprisoned together for three years before the truth was made known and they were freed.
After Basil's death Leo became emperor, remembered as Leo the Wise, but Theophano set little value on her new rank, giving herself instead to prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and the founding of churches and monasteries, and speaking, those who knew her said, no untrue or careless word. She died around the year 893. Her husband wished to build a church over her tomb, but was refused, and built instead a church dedicated to All Saints, trusting that if his wife were counted among them she would be honored whenever their feast was kept. A later tradition ties this act to the Church's keeping of the Sunday after Pentecost as the feast of All Saints, though that feast was already kept long before her lifetime.
