Punishment by Stoning

Stoning, the penalty the Old Testament prescribes for blasphemy and idolatry, was also used to punish religious dissent in the Christian East. The Paulician tradition remembered it in the fate of its founder, Constantine-Silvanus of Mananalis.

Imperial authorities arrested him for heresy and stoned him to death about 687. Simeon, the court official who carried out the sentence, was himself converted, took the name Titus and became Constantine's successor.