text: However, other sources depict these men in far more positive light: for example Cassiodorus describes Cyprianus and Opilio as "utterly scrupulous, just and loyal" and mentions they are brothers and grandsons of the consul Opilio; Theodoric was feeling threatened by international events: the Acacian Schism had been resolved, and the Catholic Christian aristocrats of his kingdom were seeking to renew their ties with Constantinople; the Catholic Hilderic became king of the Vandals and put Theodoric's sister Amalafrida to death; and Arian Christians in the East were being persecuted.