Mani, 1852. By command of King Otto, five army regiments, the cavalry and artillery groups make a sudden foray to capture an eighty-year-old monk, who is defended by 6,000 armed and 15,000 unarmed villagers. The massacre seems inevitable. Papoulakos. A legendary figure of popular religion during the Bavarocracy. An illiterate man and a former butcher, he incited the Morea and the islands against the king, the despots, the foreign protectors. For the state he was a charlatan; for the official church an outcast. For the poor rural and naval masses a saint and a prophet. Monk Christóphoros, known as "Papoulakos" or "Papoulakis", born Christóphoros Panagiotopoulos from the village Arbounas, Kalavryta (1770-1861), was declared a saint by the Ecumenical Patriarchate on August 30, 2024. The book you hold in your hands is not the life of a saint. On the contrary, it is rather proof that the canonization of someone by the official Church follows its own laws that do not necessarily fall in line with the real life of someone declared a saint.
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