other · 404 · Constantinople
Olympias was widowed young, refused the remarriage the emperor pressed on her, and spent the fortune on the church of Constantinople — which is how she came to be Chrysostom's most important supporter and, when he was deposed, the obvious person for the prefect to question. Sozomen says nothing was proved. What broke the case open in the other direction was her refusal: the other women of her circle gave way and communicated with Arsacius, the successor, and she would not, and was fined heavily for it, and disregarded the loss and left. Seventeen of Chrysostom's surviving letters from exile are to her. She died at Nicomedia four years later, which is where her death row already put her before this event existed.
To find someone to blame for the fire that took the great church on the night the bishop was sent away the second time.
No conviction, a heavy fine, and a wealthy deaconess who left the city rather than commune with the man who replaced him.