Августин Кандиотис: Разлика между версии

В 1971 година митрополит Августин Лерински поема поход за „елинизация“ и унищожаване на българското наследство в епархията си.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Andreou | first = A. and K. Kasvikis | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2018 | month = Autumn | title = The "Difficult" Past of a Town: The Resonant Silences and Suppressed Memories of Florina's Cultural Heritage | journal = MuseumEdu | publisher = | location = | volume = | issue = 6 | pages = 154 | doi = | id = | url = http://museumedulab.ece.uth.gr/main/sites/default/files/5.%20Andreas%20Andreou%20&%20Kostas%20Kasvikis_0.pdf | format = |quote = The presence and activity of Augoustinos Kantiotis (secularly Andreas Kantiotis) in western Macedonia was decisive for the ideological management of Florina’s difficult past. He initially became engaged as a preacher (1942 - 1947) and later on, from 1967, as the Bishop of Florina, appointed with honour by the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church during the period of dictatorship in the country (1967 - 74). Kantiotis contributed remarkably to the process of hellenization and the purging of every cultural element that was deemed by him to be harmful. Thes eoffensive elements could be summarized as being anything considered antithetical to the doctrine of a “Greece of Greek Christians”. The violence he addressed to anything considered non-Hellenic was multifaceted. Apart from verbal vitriol, excommunications and constant curses, the wanton demolition of monuments and their replacement by new ones functioned as symbolic violence against the inhabitants of the area. | accessdate = | lang-hide = | lang = en }}</ref> По време на неговото управление са разрушени старите български църкви „[[Свети Пантелеймон (Лерин)|Свети Панталеймон]]“ в [[Лерин]], „[[Св. св. Константин и Елена (Суровичево)|Св. св. Константин и Елена]]“ в [[Суровичево]], „[[Света Петка (Буковик)|Света Параскева]]“ в [[Буковик (дем Преспа)|Буковик]], [[Българско училище (Лерин)|Българското училище]] в Лерин, „[[Свети Николай (Щърково)|Свети Николай]]“ в Щърково, „[[Свети Атанасий (Рудари)|Свети Атанасий]]“ в Рудари и още десетки други.<ref name="False Faith">{{цитат уеб | уеб_адрес = http://falsefaith.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_26.html | заглавие = Η ζωή του «χομεϊνί» Αυγουστίνου Καντιώτη | достъп_дата = 22 юли 2020 г | фамилно_име = | първо_име = | автор_препратка = | съавтори = | дата = 26 Απριλίου 2009 | труд = | издател = False Faith | формат = | страници = | архив_уеб_адрес = | архив_дата = | цитат = | език-скрит = | език = }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last = Andreou | first = A. and K. Kasvikis | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 2018 | month = Autumn | title = The "Difficult" Past of a Town: The Resonant Silences and Suppressed Memories of Florina's Cultural Heritage | journal = MuseumEdu | publisher = | location = | volume = | issue = 6 | pages = 154 - 155 | doi = | id = | url = http://museumedulab.ece.uth.gr/main/sites/default/files/5.%20Andreas%20Andreou%20&%20Kostas%20Kasvikis_0.pdf | format = |quote = A typical example of his actions was the 1971 demolition of the St. Panteleimon cathedral, built in 1870, and the immediate foundation of a new church in its place, expunged of all the “non–Greek” remnants in the architecture and paintings of the previous one. According to the anniversary edition of Florina’s diocese (Pichos 1993: 23, 26), Athanasios Roukalis, an older priest of that church stated: "It weighed gravely upon me that the cathedral, internally and externally, had a Slavic architectural planning and design. It had three domes in the Slavic style. All the windows were also of a Slavic form. In the interior of the church, the paintings of the iconastasis were written with Slavic letters and the Greek were written on top of them. In many cases, the Greek letters were worn off or faded and the Slavic ones became visible again. I couldn’t accept that." After removing all the “offending” church icons and modifying the altar and the windows, they finally demolished the whole church. Under the pretext, that they were public safety hazards, several churches in the wider area were torn down, the Cathedral of Florina included. In many cases the “threat” was so immense that they were forced to use tanks to demolish the buildings, as happened in the case of the St. Konstantinos and Helen’s Church in Amyntaion, another town in the Florina district. | accessdate = | lang-hide = | lang = en }}</ref>