Influence Over The Church
Pulcheria was known to have brought many relics to various churches in Constantinople. In one iconography, the Trier Ivory, showing the translation of relics to the church. Historian Kenneth Holum describes the Ivory, "On the Ivory Theodosius wears distinctive costume and inclines slightly forward, but essentially he remains only part of the cortege and thus of the ceremonial context. The direction of the wagon's movement inexorably toward the scene at the right, toward the diminutive woman clothed in the rich costume of an Augusta ... in it she deposited the holy relics." Pulcheria was also of great influence over many men of power in the church including her most staunch ally Pope Leo I. Pulcheria had also had great influence over the proceedings of the Council of Ephesus and the Council of Chalcedon.
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