From The Mad Monarchist (10 April 2012)
10 August 2023
Remembering a Patriarch
The entire existence of the jihadist Ottoman Empire was a dark stain on civilisation. This was just one of many crimes they perpetrated.
Today The Mad Monarchist remembers HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople, saint and ethnomartyr who was hanged, in his vestments, from the St Peter Gate in Constantinople in retaliation for the rebellion of the Greeks on the day of Easter in 1821, to the outrage of the Orthodox and civilized world. It was a dark stain on the reign of Sultan Mahmud II and ensured that the great powers of Europe would turn against the Ottoman Empire and support Greek independence. You can read more about his life on Wikipedia here. May he always be remembered.
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