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Patriarch Gregory V was forced to issue two aphorisms of the Revolution. Nevertheless, he was hanged as the leader of the Greek Christian nation, on Easter Day (April 10/22, 1821) at the main gate of the Patriarchate. The dead Patriarch’s body is shown here dragged by the raging crowd to be thrown into the Golden Horn by order of the Ottoman official, standing; the gallows can be seen in the background. His body was recovered from the waters of the Bosphorus by the ship of Nikolaos Sklavos from Cephalonia. It was transferred to Odessa and buried in the Greek Church of the Holy Trinity; Oikonomos delivered a eulogy that epitomised the grief of the Greeks [cat. no II.1.12] for the brutal murder that shook Europe. Today, the body is kept in a marble shrine in the Metropolitan Church of Athens. The main gate of the Patriarchate of Constantinople remains sealed in commemoration.
Gregory V was declared a national martyr and a saint of the Orthodox Church.
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Peter Heinrich Lambert von Hess (1792-1871)
Patriarch Gregorios hanged at Constantinople
lithograph, 62 x 45 cm
signed: P Herwegen inv. et sculpsit (under decorative border, centre) / Gemalt v. Peter Hess (bottom left) / Lithogr. v. H. Kohler. (bottom right) / Eigenthum u. Verlag v. Meÿ u. Widmaÿer, München. (low centre)
inscribed (captions): Ο Κωνσταντινουπόλεως / Πατριάρχης Γρηγόριος αποκρεμάται. (top) / Patriarch Gregorios / hanged at Constantinople. (left) / Le Patriarch Grégoire / pendu à Constantinople. (right) / Patriarch Gregorius / in Konstantinopel gehenkt. (bottom)
Hellenic Parliament Art Collection, inv. n. 306