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The beginning was made by Demosthenes Chaviaras, an excellent and reliable writer and scholar of Symi, who was convinced by his environment or more likely by Constantine's half-brother Agapitos188 that Constantine was a near-murderer and a problematic character. Haviaras could not have known him personally (1849 - 1922), since Constantine left Symi in 1835 and died in 1867, when Haviaras was 18 years old. Haviaras, who went to Rhodes in 1862 (when he was 13) and returned in 1867, wrote a biography of Constantine in 1889, which was published in a Dictionary of Constantinople189. This biography shows that his information came from deep hatred or remorse of conscience of Constantine's half-brother. This is Agapitos Simonides, who apparently misleads Haviaras and uses these expressions.
It must not be the only time that
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Chaviaris
And he was rather zealous for drawing and painting, and at last he attempted to murder his father and his mother, whom he succeeded in poisoning with poison, which Simon's father, understanding in time, was able to prevent the dire consequences of this.
Chaviaras narrates the life of Constantine, exactly as many have copied it, with several inaccuracies or omissions
However, the text of Chaviaras gave the opportunity to many, who also had interests, to selectively reproduce the story and thus a story without foundation prevailed. Moreover, his son, Nikitas Chaviaras, when he is in Alexandria, gives the same information to the environment of the Patriarchate there.
Ι. 8. THE FAMILY OF CONSTANTINE
Simon Hatzikostas (July 1788 - 1864194) had 5 brothers and his father was Konstantinos Hatzikostas. There are other Hatzikostas who are uncles of Simon (brothers of his father Constantine's father) named John, George and Kalodoukas. There must also have been sisters of Simon's father.
Constantine's mother, Maria, died before September 1829. Simon writes and begs Kapodistrias to put the
his children in the "Orphanage" of Aegina, saying that during the Revolution he lost his beloved wife. The children go to the "Orphanage" in January 1830204.
After the death of Constantine's mother Maria, his father remarried Sevasti207 Philippou Makris208. Probably after the year 1832 or early 1833209. From Sevasti he had seven children.
204.So it is not Maria who is his stepmother, as Rüdiger says, but Se-Vashti, with whom Constantine must not have had bad relations. In the "Sy-maida" he often mentions the name of Sevasti as the mother of several of his heroes. Rüdiger, wittingly or unwittingly, has confused many things together, as others have done in the past.
Constantine in 1863 will write in a letter: "I was kept from my childhood in the same house with my instructors, by whom I was given a systematic education and mainly attended with great diligence, and soon justified the hopes of my respected parents and my famous instructors. "221.
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I. M. Hadjifotis writes227: "As a boy he attempted to murder his father and mother, whom he poisoned with poison. Fortunately, his father, father and father's father poisoned him with poison.
his father Simon perceived his son's act in time and was able to prevent its consequences. After this event, Simonides was forced to leave Symi and take refuge on Mount Athos, where he was engaged in painting, tracing and engraving".
This is what I. M. Hadjifotis has copied from Haviara. But these are not consistent with the historical evidence. Constantine, when he went to Mount Athos in 1839, was 19 years old and in the meantime he had studied in Aegina, Nafplio, Symi, Syra and Athens. He never left Symi in persecution. When his mother was alive, he was always in Symi. In all likelihood, he was always in Symi when he lived in Syros.
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There is never any evidence of his flight from Symi or a bad relationship with his parents, so this narrative about poisoning is a malicious invention, as we analyzed it before.
Saper writes about Constantine's relationship with Benedict:
"The young Simonides grew up in an oppressive environment in Symi, where, apart from his authoritarian father, he was dominated by a "scoundrel with a cross", his uncle Benedict. In the evenings the monk used to visit the seven-year-old boy in his room, causing him to be disgusted. At the age of ten, Simonides would find himself in Aegina, in a model school founded by Kapodistrias, managing to rid himself of the perverted uncle. But when he returns to the island, he is there and continues. The prospect of going to study in Athens excites him. But he becomes despondent when he learns that he must first follow Uncle Benedict to some monasteries in the North. He decides to poison his father and stepmother. He puts arsenic in their food, but not enough to kill them. They discover him and to punish him they send him to Athos, accompanied by his uncle Benedict. Unbeknownst to him, however, Simonides has been caught in a "wonderful" trap".
The writings of Ridinger Saper have nothing to do with reality. He's trying to discover an unconventional behavior of Simonides. He wants to find a cause, creating a difficult childhood. Besides, others will describe his missionary life228 as homosexuality. All this, to justify the image that he is accused of, without difficult evidence. Reality suits no one. Not those of the 19ου century, nor those of today.
It must not be the only time that
p. 76
Chaviaris
And he was rather zealous for drawing and painting, and at last he attempted to murder his father and his mother, whom he succeeded in poisoning with poison, which Simon's father, understanding in time, was able to prevent the dire consequences of this.
Chaviaras narrates the life of Constantine, exactly as many have copied it, with several inaccuracies or omissions
However, the text of Chaviaras gave the opportunity to many, who also had interests, to selectively reproduce the story and thus a story without foundation prevailed. Moreover, his son, Nikitas Chaviaras, when he is in Alexandria, gives the same information to the environment of the Patriarchate there.
Ι. 8. THE FAMILY OF CONSTANTINE
Simon Hatzikostas (July 1788 - 1864194) had 5 brothers and his father was Konstantinos Hatzikostas. There are other Hatzikostas who are uncles of Simon (brothers of his father Constantine's father) named John, George and Kalodoukas. There must also have been sisters of Simon's father.
Constantine's mother, Maria, died before September 1829. Simon writes and begs Kapodistrias to put the
his children in the "Orphanage" of Aegina, saying that during the Revolution he lost his beloved wife. The children go to the "Orphanage" in January 1830204.
After the death of Constantine's mother Maria, his father remarried Sevasti207 Philippou Makris208. Probably after the year 1832 or early 1833209. From Sevasti he had seven children.
204.So it is not Maria who is his stepmother, as Rüdiger says, but Se-Vashti, with whom Constantine must not have had bad relations. In the "Sy-maida" he often mentions the name of Sevasti as the mother of several of his heroes. Rüdiger, wittingly or unwittingly, has confused many things together, as others have done in the past.
Constantine in 1863 will write in a letter: "I was kept from my childhood in the same house with my instructors, by whom I was given a systematic education and mainly attended with great diligence, and soon justified the hopes of my respected parents and my famous instructors. "221.
p. 90
I. M. Hadjifotis writes227: "As a boy he attempted to murder his father and mother, whom he poisoned with poison. Fortunately, his father, father and father's father poisoned him with poison.
his father Simon perceived his son's act in time and was able to prevent its consequences. After this event, Simonides was forced to leave Symi and take refuge on Mount Athos, where he was engaged in painting, tracing and engraving".
This is what I. M. Hadjifotis has copied from Haviara. But these are not consistent with the historical evidence. Constantine, when he went to Mount Athos in 1839, was 19 years old and in the meantime he had studied in Aegina, Nafplio, Symi, Syra and Athens. He never left Symi in persecution. When his mother was alive, he was always in Symi. In all likelihood, he was always in Symi when he lived in Syros.
....
There is never any evidence of his flight from Symi or a bad relationship with his parents, so this narrative about poisoning is a malicious invention, as we analyzed it before.
Saper writes about Constantine's relationship with Benedict:
"The young Simonides grew up in an oppressive environment in Symi, where, apart from his authoritarian father, he was dominated by a "scoundrel with a cross", his uncle Benedict. In the evenings the monk used to visit the seven-year-old boy in his room, causing him to be disgusted. At the age of ten, Simonides would find himself in Aegina, in a model school founded by Kapodistrias, managing to rid himself of the perverted uncle. But when he returns to the island, he is there and continues. The prospect of going to study in Athens excites him. But he becomes despondent when he learns that he must first follow Uncle Benedict to some monasteries in the North. He decides to poison his father and stepmother. He puts arsenic in their food, but not enough to kill them. They discover him and to punish him they send him to Athos, accompanied by his uncle Benedict. Unbeknownst to him, however, Simonides has been caught in a "wonderful" trap".
The writings of Ridinger Saper have nothing to do with reality. He's trying to discover an unconventional behavior of Simonides. He wants to find a cause, creating a difficult childhood. Besides, others will describe his missionary life228 as homosexuality. All this, to justify the image that he is accused of, without difficult evidence. Reality suits no one. Not those of the 19ου century, nor those of today.