 Mousele arrived in Sicily in spring 838, in time to relieve the fortress of Cefalù from a Muslim attack.Mousele scored a number of successes against Muslim raiding parties but, back in Constantinople, his enemies launched accusations of contacts with the Arabs and designs on the throne.Furthermore, the death of his infant wife, Maria, cut his link to Theophilos, and the Emperor sent the archbishop of Syracuse, Theodore Krithinos, to recall the "Caesar" to Constantinople in 839.