Following the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, King Henry V instructed
the Church of York to recognise the contribution of one of her eighth-century bishops.
Hassan slipped across to Ithaca because it was in British
hands and the Turkish authorities on the Greek mainland must not know what he was going to do.
According to an ancient tradition, the Roman authorities banished St John the
Divine to the island of Patmos because they were quite unable to kill him.