Nikephoros II Phokas
Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969
Feast: 11 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Nikephoros II Phokas (Greek: Νικηφόρος Φωκᾶς, romanized: Nikēphóros Phōkâs; c. 912 – 11 December 969), Latinized Nicephorus II Phocas, was Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969. His career, not uniformly successful in matters of statecraft or of war, nonetheless greatly contributed to the resurgence of the Byzantine Empire during the 10th century. In the east, Nikephoros completed the conquest of Cilicia and retook the islands of Crete and Cyprus, opening the path for subsequent Byzantine incursions reaching as far as Upper Mesopotamia and the Levant; these campaigns earned him the sobriquet "pale death of the Saracens."
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- English Wikipedia — Nikephoros II Phokas (CC BY-SA)
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