Yesterday was the annual celebration day of St. Nikon the Repenter (930-998), better known as Nikon Metanoeite, the official patron saint of Sparta, the man who completed the Hellenic ethnocide in Laconia at the end of the first post-Christian millennium. (The church denies that and, in turn, accuses us of lying, but the sources are clear.) On this day, Romiosyni, the Greek-speaking orthodox Christianity, celebrates not only the annihilation of the Hellenes or Romiosyni's obvious non-Greekness, but also the illogical anti-Hellenism that permeates Romaic society. A man who enslaved the last free Hellenes, the Laconians, and slaughtered their priests, is celebrated on this day, November 26th, not as the phaulos daimon («evil spirit») that he was, but as the patron saint of Sparta. This is, according to Orthodox Christianity, not sickness, but tradition. As Hellenes we are more than happy about the fact that this is not our «tradition.»
The link below leads to a site, called hellenicnews [sic!], that praises Nikon, with the typical style of Orthodoxy, for «his humility and patience,» without a single mention of his crimes against the Hellenes. This is another reason why some particular people should stop pretending to be Hellenes. Saint Nikon “Metanoeite,” the Patron Saint of Sparta.
