Excerpt taken from the book: “I want to
drink all of the Bosporus”
by
Archmandrite
Dositheos. (Comments by
T.F.D.)
Upon the founding of the
neo-Hellenic State, Adamantios
Korais’
Protestantizing “Enlighteners”, who had taken
over the leadership of the land, had hastened to LOOT
AND CLOSE DOWN monasteries, which were the “heart” of
Orthodoxy and the teachers of the pure Orthodox Faith.
This is what led the people of Hellas to a (continuing)
ignorance of their own tradition, given that it was
replaced by imported Western and heretic notions.
*“Bavarocracy”:
A loose
term alluding to the period of time that Hellas was governed by Bavarian
families, following the 1821 Liberation Revolution against the Turks and
after the assassination of Hellas’ first Greek Governor,
Ioannis Kapodistrias.
