In 1958, about ten years after the end of the Civil War, the educator and historical researcher, Takis Stamatopoulos, writes a book about the demystification of the personality of the Old Father Germanos. Representing one of the intellectual trends of his time, Stamatopoulos does not aim to rid the historical presence of P. P. Germanos of any legend that accompanies him, but rather to cancel the heroic and benevolent context through which the prisoner faced him historiography and ideology. A historiography that had gradually and methodically begun to establish itself in Greece a century earlier, largely recreating historical events, managing to beautify - among other things - the general pre-revolutionary role of the supreme leadership of the Church in the face of the possibility of an uprising against the Ottomans.
Using a multitude of 19th century sources, the author presents the popular hierarch in his true dimensions, outside the veil of myth with which ecclesiastical tradition surrounded him. In this book you will learn about:
• The attitude of PP Germanos before the outbreak of the Revolution
• The reasons for which he wanted the extermination of Papaflessas
• The gray background of the infamous Assembly of Vostitsa
• The real events in the holy Lavra, taking into account the absence of references in Germanos's own Memoirs regarding the raising of the famous Lavarus of the Struggle
• The insatiable thirst for power and his conflict with Dimitrios Ypsilantis, Kolokotronis, but also the Philikis.
The book is foreworded by Giorgos Margaritis, professor of Modern History at the Department of Political Sciences of AUTH.
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