Greek Revolution
Tradition was that on March 25, 1821, Bishop Germanos blessed a Greek flag at the Monastery of Agia Lavra and proclaimed the national uprising against the Ottoman empire. Another revolt of Greek War of Independence had also been declared on February 21 by Alexandros Ypsilantis in Iaşi.
However, there are a few historians arguing that the core of this tradition might not be untrue, based on some personal archives of Greek revolution fighters maintaining that Germanos performed a doxology and administered an oath to some kocabaşıs and bishops of Morea on March 17, the day of celebration for the Agia Lavra Monastery. Yet, Germanos says in his memoirs that "those gathered decided not to give rise to suspicions and they took refuge to shelters, because they were afraid". What is sure is that they left knowing that a revolution was about to start. Germanos died in 1826 at Nafplion.
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