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In fact, despite the repeated requests of the Empress Theodora, he refused to re-establish Anthimus of Trebizond, who St. Agapitus had deposed from the bishopric of Constantinople as an advocate of the heresy of Eutyches (monophysitism). Therefore, the wrathful woman ordered to Belisarius to send Silverius in exile. He was deported in the island of Ponza, where, it is said, that he wrote in such terms to the bishop Amator: “I am fed upon the bread of tribulation, and the water of affliction, but nevertheless, I have not given up, and I will not give up, doing my duty”. And really, exhausted in short by grief and sufferings, he slept in the Lord the 20th of June 537. His body, moved to Rome and deposed in the Vatican basilica, he was illustrated by many miracles.