Damascene of Aetoloakarnania: "Every place that is crushed by tyranny is a potential Messolonghi".translated
The text that follows is the presentation of the Venerable Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damasquinos, at the 1st Conference of the Christian Union of Cyprus Scientists (CHEKE), on the theme "200 years since the Exodus of Messolonghi: Messages and Lessons", which took place in Nicosia, on Sunday, September 20, 2026 and was under the Patronage of His Beatitude Archbishop of Nea Justiniani and all of Cyprus Mr. Georgios.
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With feelings of deep emotion, extraordinary honor and sincere gratitude, I am today in the martyred Cyprus; in a place which, perhaps more than any other area of Hellenism, knows what historical memory means. A place that has experienced, in a dramatic and painful way, the truth that freedom, justice and national dignity are not abstract concepts, but are values for which people and peoples, when historical circumstances dictate, are called to pay even the highest price.
My presence here is not just a ceremonial visit of a Hierarch of the Church of Greece to...
