Posted on 08/14/2010 9:48:16 PM PDT by 0beron
Several thousand Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey arrive on Sunday at the Sumela-Cloister in the East of the Land. There the Nationalists hope to protest against the Christians.
(kath.net/KAP) Several thousand Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey will arrive according to their Patriarch Bartholomeos I on the this Sunda as "Peace Ambassadors" to the Sumela Cloister in the East of the Land. The Christians have waited for a long time for this day, said the Patriarch of Constantinople in an interview for the daily "Sabah" (Friday Edition). In view of protests by Turkish Nationalists against the Liturgy on the Feast of the "Assumption" said the honorary head of around 300 Million Orthodox Christians in the world, that he trusts in the security measures of the authorities.
The ancient Sumela Cloister in the south Black Sea city of Trebizond is the sanctuary location for a Marian Ikon, which was painted according to legend by St. Luke. After the exile of the Greeks by the Turkish-Greek population exchange in the 1920s the Cloister was abandoned and declared a museum. The Orthodox Christians struggled for years to get permission for a Liturgy to be celebrated in the Cloister. Bartholomaios I thanked the Culture Ministry for this, that this is the first time such an event is taking place.
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The Terrifying Brilliance of the Islamic Memeplex...
http://www.citizenwarrior.com/2007/10/terrifying-brilliance-of-islamic.html
....and yet the planned mosque/cultural center on Park Pl. is just a "bridge".......Riiiiiiiiiight.
“They accuse the Christians of using the Liturgy on the 15th of August to summon a restoration of the Byzantine Empire.”
Curses!!!!!!!!!!!! Those clever Turks have discovered the EP’s secret plan to restore the Dragas family to their throne!
What idiots!
I think the Porphyrogentoi are still around. I guess the Megalia Idea is a sleeping idea if not outright dead, but Greeks are slowly buying up all that Ionian coastline, returnig slowly to those places that their fathers, or grandfathers knew as home.
“I think the Porphyrogentoi are still around.”
Indeed they are. I had dinner with one last evening. :)
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