Irene, empress of Constantinople, born in Athens, a poor orphan girl, famous for her beauty, her talents, and her crimes; was banished to Lesbos, where she maintained herself by spinning; has been canonised by the Greek Church for her zeal in image worship (752‒803).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ire`ne * Ireton, Henry