 This is probably related to an incident mentioned in the account of Theophanes, where a certain Constantine, who served as a groom ("strator") to Artabasdos, threw a stone on an icon of the Virgin Mary and then trampled on it.The soldier was killed the next day by a catapult, a fact which Theophanes reports as evidence of divine vengeance.However, this passage shows strong signs of tampering by the fervently anti-iconoclast Theophanes, from what was probably originally a pro-iconoclast story.