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The legend is based on a claim made by Pseudo-Dionysius in a letter addressed to Polycarp: " What have you to say about the solar eclipse which occurred when the Savior was put on the cross?

At the time the two of us were in Heliopolis and we both witnessed the extraordinary phenomenon of the moon hiding the sun at the time that was out of season for their coming together ... We saw the moon begin to hide the sun from the east, travel across to the other side of the sun, and return on its path so that the hiding and the restoration of the light did not take place in the same direction but rather in diametrically opposite directions ..."