Did you know that there is Our Lady of Kolokotronis;
More specifically, this small church made to fulfill one curse of the Elder of Moriatoday is enclosed for reasons of protection, inside a newer building known as the Monastery of Kolokotronis.
This church – monastery is located just a few kilometers outside the city of Megalopolis on the road leading to the beautiful and equally historic Karytaina.
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A few words about this unknown historical attraction:
Northeast of the village New Churchin Megalopolis of Arcadiaand at a distance of four kilometers is built the Holy Monastery, the “monastery of Kolokotronis”, as it is also known, because he had taken care of its reconstruction over the years 1822 to 1825 after its destruction by the Turks.
As a descriptive adjective it has the “Merge” from the now abandoned village of Merze, which was renamed in 1927 to Ekklisoula.
The whole building of the monastery is stone-built in a rectangular shape. Above vaulted entrance is inscription with the name of Theodoros Kolokotroni and left wall slabs and architectural members that were transferred from the ancient theater of Megalopolis.
The catholic, blackened by the disasters, belongs to its type single-aisled basilica and it is hagiographed by a folk painter of the 18th century. It is dedicated to Assumption of Mary and celebrates on August 15th.
A few words about the Holy Monastery of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Curse of the Elder of Moria:
First mention of the monastery as We have a New Monastery in 1322 in golden bull of Andronikos Paleologos. This Holy Monastery as mentioned in a speech by Mr. George Prachalias at an event:
In the period of the second Turkish occupation, from 1715 to 1821, the most important testimony we have is that of Theodoros Kolokotronis. Geros narrates in his memoirs: “Once I went to the festival of the Holy Monastery. This monastery was large and was destroyed in the first Turkey. When I passed, it was a damaged and covered church with tree branches. Then I said: My Lady, help us to liberate our Homeland from the Tyrant and to make fun of you as you were before. It helped me, and in the second year of our revolution I fulfilled my vow and made it. “
Kolokotronis made his vow in the year 1823. The main feature of this reconstruction was the construction of the special western side of the Monastery, where at the entrance of the entrance is the marble slab with the carved inscription “eodoros kolokotronis 1804”. It is touching that as the date of reconstruction the year of the vow was not written, but the year in which Kolokotronis made his vow. The slight inaccuracy between the narration of Kolokotronis for the year 1803 and the “1804” written on the plaque, does not reduce the symbolism of the inscription.
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