“during the Muslim conquest of Turkey in 1087”
Here is another miserable mistake. The CNS writers must be in a permanent hangover mode or have given up on fact checking.
Turkey was not conquered-—that hopeful event still remains to happen.
Byzantium was continually under attack by arab muslims then by Turk Muslims –no Turkey existed – not until Kemal Mustafa - Hitler’s teacher of genocide—took over and finished off the destruction of 4 million Christian in the 20th century.
Here is another especially self serving rewriting of history too on the part of the CNS writers:
“…during the Muslim conquest of Turkey in 1087, his relics were taken to Bari by the Italians.”
Fact:
In 1087 Italian merchants STOLE his body at Myra, bringing it to Bari in Italy.
Had the Italian merchants not taken his bones to Italy, what do you suppose the Muslims would have done with them?