Letters - Letter 145 to Leo Augustus
Letter CXLV.to Leo Augustus1 .
Letter CXLV.to Leo Augustus1 .
(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius2 .) 1: Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.
2: On Marcian's death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Aelurus set up in his stead.