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124 was given to Sergius, and his friend Xenaias died a fugitive in Paphlagonia. Fifty-four Monophysite bishops were participators with them in exile, and the prisons of Constantinople were filled with the ecclesiastics of the eastern Church. Under the protection of their empress, however, and by the labours of Jacobus Baradæus, from whom the sect afterwards took the name of Jacobites, the doctrine of the one nature was spread over the eastern and southern provinces of the Byzantine empire.