On June 17, 653, a significant event shook the papacy in Rome. On this day, Pope Martin I, who had vehemently opposed the Monothelite heresy, was arrested by Theodore Calliopas, an envoy of Byzantine Emperor Constantine II. This arrest marked the climax of a theological and political dispute that had profound repercussions on the Church and the Byzantine Empire... #history #Vatican https://wakonda666.blogspot.com/2023/06/1717th-june-653-arrest-of-pope-martin-i.html