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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Drusipara |
 | | In the time of Emperor Mauritius the city was captured by the Khakan of the Avars, who burned the church and destroyed the relics of the martyr (Theophyl. |
| | Drusipara was at first an episcopal see, suffragan of Heraclia (Lequien, Or. |
| | Christ., 1, 1131, etc.); in the eighth and ninth centuries it became an independent archbishopric, which must have been suppressed during the Bulgarian invasions. |
| www.newadvent.org /cathen/05166a.htm (173 words) |
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