A Byzantine Rite Church.
“A Byzantine Rite Church.”
I am likely the only poster on FR who had a family member die in battle at the side of the God Ordained Emperor Constantine Paleologos XI, and other family members, women and children, raped and hauled off into slavery when the savage Mohammedan Turks broke into Agia Sophia during the last Liturgy, on that most tragic night of Tuesday, May 28, 1453. Their stories were my bedtime stories. One of my dearest and best friends is a direct descendant of the Emperor. I never understood the expressed sentiment of the Imperial Official Loukas Notaras when he exclaimed “Better the Sultan’s turban than the Pope’s cap!” But when I read the disgusting suggestion that our holy cathedral be converted to a Uniate church, I finally understand!