From part A
Charles Stewart tells us that when the "Orphanage" was "closed",
Nicander (Michael Kalafatas) brought them back in 1834 264. From the a-.
Nikandros' memoirs (Skiathitis Archives) show that Konstantinos' father meets his friend Archimandrite Leontios Kabanios, supervisor of staff and food of the "Orphanage" and meets with him (January 1831). We see this in the letter sent by the representatives of Symi to Benedict, where they write on 23.5.1831.
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O Charles Stewart
μας λέει ότι, όταν «έκλεισε» το «Ορφανοτροφείο», ο
Νίκανδρος (Μιχαήλ Καλαφατάς) τα φέρνει πίσω, το 1834 264. Από τα απομνημονεύματα του Νίκανδρου (Αρχεία Σκιαθίτη) προκύπτει ότι ο πατέ- ρας του Κωνσταντίνου συναντά το φίλο του αρχιμανδρίτη Λεόντιο Καμπάνη, επόπτη προσωπικού και τροφίμων του «Ορφανοτροφείου» και συντρώγει μαζί του (Ιανουάριος 1831). Το βλέπουμε και στο γράμμα που στέλνουν οι εκπρόσωποι της Σύμης στον Βενέδικτο, όπου γράφουν στις 23.5. 1831: «αμέσως λοιπόν έπήγαμεν εις τό όρφανοτροφείον και δι' ευχών των άγιων εύρήκαμεν τά παιδιά καλά»265.
264. Το «Ορφανοτροφείο» δεν έκλεισε το 1834, αλλά μεταφέρθηκε στο Ναύπλιο. Ο Φώτιος ήταν ήδη τυφλός από το 1834. Έτσι τα παιδιά επιστρέφουν στη Σύμη.
264. The "Orphanage" was not closed in 1834, but was moved to Nafplion. Photios was already blind since 1834. So the children return to Symi.
Stewart p. 9
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Constantine in his Autographs speaks of a
confrontation between Ioannis Fotiadis and Nicander Georgiades.
Benedict encourages them and announces that things are taking a new turn. He advises them how to behave and what to say. Among these he tells them about the actions of
Nicander, brother of Constantine's mother's mother, as the island's representative. Nicander, then, in addition to being a representative of Symi, is enrolled in the Ecclesiastical School. He also tells them that at many dangers he carried out his mission155.
The ideological orientation of the teachers, driven by "nationalism", led them to join the Society of Friends. A three-member committee had been appointed by the Society of Friends, with Nikandros Filadelfos Georgiadis70 (who represented Symi together with Simon Hatzi-kosta informally at the National Assembly of Nafplio in 1832) as chairman, and Benedict and Prokopios as members, who were charged with the task of indoctrinating the Friends of the Sporades. The financial power of the School was channelled by the Friends to the revolutionary apparatus, with the approval of the ephors71. For this reason, from 1814 they created frictions with the state provosts, who finally managed to close the school in 1820. It became, as they justifiably said, a hotbed of educated weeds. That is to say, young people who viewed the common things of the island with a modernist outlook72.
The pioneers of the participation in the Greek revolution were Procopius Dendrinos, Benedictus Russo and Agapitos Hatziagapitos Hatziioannou, the secretary of the School. They were the ones who made the ideology of nationalism their way of life. The
last two are therefore also close relatives of Constantine.