MARTORANA
Giorgio d’Antiochia (ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΥΣ) and the MARTORANA (Santa Maria D Ammiraglio), Palermo, Sicily.
MARTORANA. Georgios founded
the church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio (Saint Mary of the Admiral) in
Palermo, later known as the Martorana, built on the foundations of a
pre-existing Sicelo-Greek Church of Saint Nicholas in Palermo.
It was built and functioned as an ORTHODOX CHURCH until the violent covert
in to roman catholic
Giorgio d’Antiochia (ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΥΣ), a Sicelo-Greek,
was the Emir of Emirs (Arab title for premiers, Prime Minister and Admiral) of
the Norman kingdom under Roger II.
He was responsible for the military expansion of the Norman kingdom in
Africa, the Peloponnese, Apulia, Epirus, and even the expedition to conquer
Constantinople.
Giorgio was a polyglot and a man of great culture. He founded the church of
Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio in Palermo (later known as the Martorana), on the
foundations of a pre-existing Sicelo-Greek Church of Saint Nicholas in Palermo,
adorned with splendid Byzantine mosaics. In one of them (first photo), Giorgio
d’Antiochia, kneeling, offers the church to the Virgin Mary.
ΔΟΥΛΟΥ ΔΕΗCΙC CΟΥ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΜΗΡΑ. (The prayer of your servant George the Admiral).
The Mother of God holds a scroll on which her words addressed to her Son
are written:
ΤΟΝ ΕΚ ΒΑΘΡΩΝ ΔΕΜΑΝΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΕ ΜΟΙ
ΔΟΜ[ΟΝ] ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΝ ΠΡΩΤΙCΤΟΝ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΩΝ ΟΛΩΝ, ΤΕΚΝΟ ΦΥΛΑΤΤΕΙC ΠΑΝΓΕΝΕΙ ΠΑCHC BΛΑΒΗC, ΝΕΜΕΙC ΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΛΥΤΡΩCIN ΑΜΑΡΤΗΜΑΤΩΝ. EXEIC ΓΑΡ ΙCΧΥΝ ΩC Θ[ΕΟ]C MONOC ΛΟΓΕ
(Guard, my Son, George, the first among all
princes, who built me this house from the foundations; preserve him, descendant
of the whole lineage, from all harm, and grant the remission of sins. For you,
O Word, alone are God and have the power.)
He also founded the Orthodox Church of San Michele in Mazara
del Vallo, in the eastern part of Sicily, as well as the same greek
artists and architects were built the Cathedral of Cefalù, the Chapel Palatine in Palermo, the cathedral… among other works.
At this
time, the Greek-speaking Sicilians and Orthodox, constitute the great majority
of the
inhabitants of the island and Southern Italy (the Arabs were in second place),
since the
second millennium BC., and the Minoan and
Mycenaean settlement, uninterruptedly.
In the
following centuries they will be Latinized in a violent and brutal way, by the
Vatican and his Franco-Germanic vasals. The church of Vatican came in Sicily for first
time, with the Concordat of Norman conqueror Robert
Guiscard, and Pope Nicolo II, in the year 1059.
He, Georgios, also made the “Admiral’s
Bridge” (Ponte dell’Ammiraglio) with seven arches built over the Oreto
River in Palermo. On this bridge, in 1860, Garibaldi's Red Shirts fought for
the first time against the army of the Sicilians of Francis II of the Two
Sicilies, during the creation of the Italian State (Risorgimento).
He died shortly thereafter; according to the historian Ibn al-Athīr,
in the year of the Hegira 546, corresponding to 1151–1152.
He was succeeded in his positions as Emir of Emirs (Prime Minister) by
another Sicelo-Greek, Philip of Mahdia.
ANEX
Greek Genetics from 1,000 BC until today.
Genetic Reality of the Mezzogiorno today! Challenging the myth and propaganda of Romanic, Normanic, Germanic & Arab DNA ancestry.
“Contrary to popular belief the many invasions in southern
Source: Cavalli-Sforza (University of Stanford, USA), Luigi Luca, Menozzi Paolo, Piazza Alberto (Turin Italy), "The History and Geography of Human Genes. p.
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The Greeks have had an unbroken historical presence in Southern Italy, including Sicily, since prehistory, beginning with the arrival of the Minoan Cretans in the 3rd millennium BC, the Mycaenean after 13 century B.C., the archaic colonization with more than 250 cities in Magna Graecia in 8th c.BC,, the huge wave of Eikonoclasts in 8th century aC.,during the Macedonian dynasty, the Greek refugees after Turkish conquest…
An unstoppable
wave of Greek in their western homeland, Sicilia, Apoulia, Calabria,
Basilicata, Campania. The tomb of King Minos
of Crete, is located on the hill of
Guastanedda, north of Agrigento, (in the first Heraclaea Minoa) while that of
Daedalus is somewhere near Trapani (its exact location is uncertain), and the tomb of the father of the gods, Cronus
(Saturn in Latin), is also said to be in
central-western Sicily, on Mount Cronion, after the terrible Titanomachy, when
he loose his throne from his son Zeus… See more at ths blog: sicilia-calabria.blogspot.com. In the free Book: «MYTHOLOGY, PREHISTORY AND
HISTORY OF SOUTH ITALY, UNTIL 13 CENTURY », in English and Italian version.
This continued until the 13th–14th century, when the German conquerors began to implement a violent process of Catholicization and Latinization and the Inquisition burned Sicilians, Calabrians and other Greeks at the stake in order to force them to change their creed. Since then, only three communities have survived to the present day: in Messina Sicily, in the interior of Reggio Calabria, and in Salentine Greece in Apulia.
The Vatican arrived in Southern Italy for the first time with the Concordat of 1059, between the Norman conqueror Robert Guiscard and the Pope.
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