Saint Tarasius (Subscribe)
Links
St. Tarasius, Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
http://www.cin.org/saints/tarasius.html
From Butler's Lives of the Saints.
Catholic Online: St. Tarasius
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=158
Short biography.
Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Tarasius
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14451b.htm
A layman who became Patriarch of Constantinople by acclamation, called for the Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, champion of Church unity and of the veneration of the holy ikons. Died 806.