Full English translation text below except short Greek section PHOTO: Symi during the Greek Revolution - By Nikolos Farmakidis - Νικολού Φαρμακίδη...
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Among others, Michael Fotiadis Markonis (b. 1775) taught at the School. Nikandros Philadelphos Georgiadis (1793-1873) (student in Kydonias of Theof. Kairis), the
hierodeacon Benediktos Rossios (Spiachios, born in Symi in 1760 and died in Athos, on 28.5.1840) and Archimandrite Prokopios Dendrinos from Ithaca ( died on 14.8.1848 in Agios Oros). The last two coexisted in many places, from the time when they were pensioners at the Athonias School, with
Evgenios Voulgaris as a teacher, and in Kydonias.
Benedict also taught at the Theological School of Halkis, together with the hieromonk Baltholomaios Koutloumusianos and Leontios, he wrote the "Easter Gospel", the services "at Axion Estin" in 1838 and at the "Saints Anargyros Pandas", praises of Saints, etc. Several of these teachers also taught in other large schools in the Greek area, such as in Kydonias, Constantinople and Jerusalem. They therefore belonged to
a pan-Hellenic circle of scholars, with many acquaintances in diplomatic circles of the West, Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The library of the School, compiled by the Sinaiites Georgios Makrotevion and the Protosygelos Papa – Grigorio Katsaras, had 798 volumes of which 137 were donated by the Sinaiites. Her students later attended Italian Universities (Padua, Pavia, etc.), where they met other Greek scholars, such as
Kapodistria, etc. During the revolution of 21, the School was in great prosperity and was, among other things, an economic factor of the island . The "Kionos" borrowed large sums from it (up to 6,000 groschi), as did many merchants, mainly sponge "starters",
Hi Steven
Yes I noticed that too. I guess he means he wasn't their direct teacher but they followed his teachings. Νικολός
