Constantinople (Istanbul)

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Howbeit on the first of May we arrived by sea at Constantinople, and stopped at Pera till the feast of St. John Baptist.[211.1] We had no idle time of it however, for we were engaged in a most weighty controversy with the Patriarch of the Greeks and their whole Council in the palace of St. Sophia. And there God wrought in us a new miracle, giving us a mouth and wisdom which they were not able to resist; for they were constrained to confess that they must needs be schismatics, and had no plea to urge against their own condemnation except the intolerable arrogance of the Roman prelates.

- John of Marignolli, Recollections, p. 211 (1339).