Holy Metropolitanate of Chios, Psara and Oinoussai: “When we took up arms, we said we did this first for the faith and then for the fatherland. All the nations of the world have and preserve a religion”

Quoting from the speech delivered on October 8, 1838 by Theodoros Kolokotronis to the pupils of the Royal High-school of Athens, Most Rev. Metropolitan Markos of Chios, Psara and Oinoussai performed the sanctification of the commencement of the new school year in the Junior and Senior High-School of Kallimassia and in the private Naval High-School TEENS (of the Tsakos Foundation).

The bicentenary of 1821 inspired the Chian Hierarch to address to the pupils the same words that the Old Man of Morea pronounced under the Acropolis, the place where the ancient sages spoke, on Pnyx where Apostle Paul preached the only true God to Greece and Europe. That admirable speech was read out by the Most Rev. Metropolitan with all the power of his soul so that those teaching and those taught may be touched.