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**metropropuskruww** · 06-02-2008, 05:44 PM

Being fairly new here, I hope that this is the right place to post this. I thought this was so interesting, that I needed to share it!

Being here in Athens, Greece, my husband and I, (as I explained in another post on 'Casual Conversation' yesterday) found ourselves at the Archdiocesan Metropolis (Cathedral) for Divine Liturgy today...

After the Divine Liturgy, the priests proceeded to the other side of the square infront of the Church, where a bronze statue of the last Emperor Constantine Paleologos XI stands.

At this place, a 'mnymosyno'/'memorial service' was chanted for the last Emperor of Byzantium, who fought alongside his countrymen against the invading Ottomans.

A band played, and the moving hymn, 'Champion General/Invinciple Champion' (Tin Ipermaho) was sung from the famous Akathist to the Theotokos. The Priest also remembered those Greek and Roman citizens of Byzantium who fought together valiantly on that sad and fateful day in the history of Christianity.

After five hundred and fifty years, it was moving to pray for the soul of the last leader of the Christian Byzantine Empire. May his memory, and the memory of all who perished that horrible day, be eternal in the Kingdom of our God!

May Christianity one day flourish again on the shores of the Bosporus..in God's time and in God's way--
(to make clear that I am not making any political expansionist gestures for the nation of Greece

).

In Christ,
Alice

06-02-2008, 05:44 PM	#1
metropropuskruww Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 389 Senior Member	Memorial service for last emperor, Constantine Paleologos XI Being fairly new here, I hope that this is the right place to post this. I thought this was so interesting, that I needed to share it! Being here in Athens, Greece, my husband and I, (as I explained in another post on 'Casual Conversation' yesterday) found ourselves at the Archdiocesan Metropolis (Cathedral) for Divine Liturgy today... After the Divine Liturgy, the priests proceeded to the other side of the square infront of the Church, where a bronze statue of the last Emperor Constantine Paleologos XI stands. At this place, a 'mnymosyno'/'memorial service' was chanted for the last Emperor of Byzantium, who fought alongside his countrymen against the invading Ottomans. A band played, and the moving hymn, 'Champion General/Invinciple Champion' (Tin Ipermaho) was sung from the famous Akathist to the Theotokos. The Priest also remembered those Greek and Roman citizens of Byzantium who fought together valiantly on that sad and fateful day in the history of Christianity. After five hundred and fifty years, it was moving to pray for the soul of the last leader of the Christian Byzantine Empire. May his memory, and the memory of all who perished that horrible day, be eternal in the Kingdom of our God! May Christianity one day flourish again on the shores of the Bosporus..in God's time and in God's way-- (to make clear that I am not making any political expansionist gestures for the nation of Greece ). In Christ, Alice
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