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iconoclast, Theoktiste was reportedly an iconodule. Not only did she aid persecuted iconodules, but when Theodora's five daughters visited her in her house, she would instruct them in the veneration of the icons, much to the anger of Theophilos, who forbade his daughters from visiting their grandmother too often. Her house was later--possibly still during Theophilos' reign (829-842)--transformed into the Gastria Monastery.

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