Offering the model of the church to the enthroned Christ he is interceded by the Virgin and John the Baptist holding an empty scroll. The armies of the principalities, abolished in the s by Constantin Mavrocordat, were also restored under the statutes. Crucially too, the treaty annulled the Ottoman monopoly on agricultural produce, allowing the principalities to trade freely on the open market. So, as one can see the use of plural form in the inscription suggests that the supplication was addressed on behalf of both, Teodor and Anastasia. Kyrillos Lukaris, patriarch from to , for example, was known to favour reforms of the Orthodox Church which were inspired by Calvinism.
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