"Sira nostra patria": The Catholics of Syros between empire and state (1821-1833)
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"Sira nostra patria": The Catholics of Syros between empire and state (1821-1833)
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15 June 2022
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As the only island with a majority of Catholics among its inhabitants, Syros was characterized as “Pope’s island” during the Ottoman period. Its key position and the neutrality maintained by the local community after the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, made it a safe haven for many Orthodox refugees fleeing Ottoman retaliation, especially after the massacres of Chios in April 1822. By 1825, tens of thousands of Orthodox refugees had settled in the port, which in the meantime became a center of legal and illegal trade of all kinds. The founding of Ermoupoli and the subsequent accession of the island to the Greek Kingdom marked the end of an era and of a world for the local community.
Based on the archival material of the local religious and secular authorities, their correspondence with the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome and the representatives of France, Austria and the emerging Greek state, the presentation attempts to describe how the hybrid identity of the “Latins” forged at a crossroads of trade routes between the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean soon gave way to that of the ‘Greeks of the Western Church.”
(Edited and translated abstract from organiser’s website)
Based on the archival material of the local religious and secular authorities, their correspondence with the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome and the representatives of France, Austria and the emerging Greek state, the presentation attempts to describe how the hybrid identity of the “Latins” forged at a crossroads of trade routes between the Black Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean soon gave way to that of the ‘Greeks of the Western Church.”
(Edited and translated abstract from organiser’s website)
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