Germanos III of Old Patras

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Germanos III of Old Patras (1771–1826)
Monastery Agia Lavra, Germanos blessing the flag. Painting by Theodoros Vryzakis, 1865

Germanos III of Old Patras (

Metropolitan of Patras
. He played an important role in the Greek Revolution of 1821, having diplomatic and political activity.

Germanos was born in

Patriarch Gregory V, he had served as a priest and protosyncellus in Smyrna
.

Greek Revolution

According to tradition and several written sources, on March 25 (6 April in the

Iaşi
, which was crushed by June 1821.

References

  1. ^ "Greek Independence Day". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2009-09-09. The Greek revolt was precipitated on March 25, 1821, when Bishop Germanos of Patras raised the flag of revolution over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese. The cry "Freedom or Death" became the motto of the revolution.
  2. . On 25 March, Germanos gave the revolution its great symbol when he raised a banner with the cross on it at the monastery of Ayia Lavra.
  3. . The Greek uprising and the church. Bishop Germanos of old Patras blesses the Greek banner at the outset of the national revolt against the Turks on 25 March 1821. The solemnity of the scene was enhanced two decades later in this painting by T. Vryzakis….The fact that one of the Greek bishops, Germanos of Old Patras, had enthusiastically blessed the Greek uprising at the onset (25 March 1821) and had thereby helped to unleash a holy war, was not to gain the church a satisfactory, let alone a dominant, role in the new order of things.