– Some wicked people conspired against him and tried to poison him three times, but the Lord rescued him every time; when the son of the Caliph, Abd Al-Aziz Ibn Marwan, learned of this, he ordered to burn those people alive, but the Pope interceded on their behalf
– The Pope was accused of ordaining a bishop for India without informing the governor, in which case he would have been tortured and forced to pay jizya (Islamic tax) if it was not for God who revealed that the Melkite Patriarch is the one who did that; the Pope also interceded on his behalf
