Catherine’s Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities
Journal: Academic Studies Press eBooks
Year: 2019

I n the small village of Kampos on the island of Tinos in the Greek archipelago can be found a remarkable Orthodox church dedicated to Saint Catherine.According to the story preserved on Tinos (no Russian documents confirming the story have yet been discovered), the small Orthodox community of Kampos quarreled unsuccessfully with the Catholic majority on the island about the allotment of land for building an Orthodox church.In 1771, through the auspices of a priest, this community turned to Coun