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They lost the battle in Council of State So the nun Theonymfi, by world Maria Alexopoulou, who after the sudden death of her 18-year-old daughter in a car accident decided to join the Church, as well as four other nuns from Germany.
Mary Alexopoulou in the sixties and seventies was one of the highest paid singers of the most important themes of Athens (“Deilina”, “Asteria”, “Old Athens”, “Castle”, “Rock”, etc.), while she had the luck to sing songs with great names like him Giannis Poulopoulos, τον Giannis Vogiatzis, the Bessie Argyraki, τον Robert williams, but also the George Katsaros, and many other artists of the time.
He was born and raised in Peristeri and is the oldest child in a family of six. His mother came from a family of artists, with her playing a small mandolin. Her father, a commissioner of the Diocese of Peristeri, with old principles, sent his children to the Catechism and objected to his daughter singing or dancing, as she wished.
However, some of his grandfather’s musician friends convinced him of his singing talent.. In fact, one of them gained her trust and that is why he took her with him to an orchestra that existed at that time in the “Village Tavern” of Ekali to sing, and at night, with the agreement of course that he always carry it. same home. of his family. From there, step by step, he went up the music tracks and his name was included among the first in the artistic field of the pentagram, written in large and bright letters on the eaves of the centers where he sang.
When he met the director Klavva Coast Their collaboration with the first vinyl record began in 1966. That same year, at the Thessaloniki Light Song Festival, they won first prize with the song “Panigyri”, by Klavvas and Mavromoustakis. He was also honored at a European festival in Spain and at the Malta Festival. Until the age of 42 he lived a dream life..
She was married to a well-known businessman and had two daughters. Her marriage and the warmth of the family for some time made her leave her artistic path behind, as she chose to stay out of the spotlight. But some financial failures of her husband brought her back to the catwalks..
The accident
But life plays its own game. In 1984 a tragic event marked her life decisively and from one moment to another everything changed for her. It was nothing more than the sudden death of her 18-year-old daughter from her first marriage (her first husband had died), in lamination. Konstantina’s daughter, at age 18, shortly before leaving to study Political Science abroad, one morning took her car from the family home to Kifissia, where there was a health food store and the singer was then thinking about build a great chain. of this type of stores, something very innovative for the time. Unfortunately, the unfortunate girl’s car at the Agia Marina curve in Koropi collided with a truck, which struck her from the driver’s side, causing her instant death. As Mary Alexopoulou herself had narrated, that tragic rainy day when she lost her daughter changed everything in her life and she decided to turn to God’s way:
“I was asleep at the time of the accident. I saw in my dream that the sky opened and the cross of Christ fell on my forehead. I got up and my head ached. At that moment I saw our gardener and told him about the dream. he wondered. He told me that the boy had not gone to the store “. She left the limelight permanently in 1986 and started going to church and two years later she decided to go and become a nun.. Initially he became a rasofora, after three years he was magnificent and then came the enthronement of the abbot. In 1992, with his own money, he slowly created the Holy Hermitage of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Koropi in Attica. It was basically his own home. In 1974 he bought the land in Koropi and later built his house. After the tragic event of the loss of his daughter and his decision to join the Church, he made her a Hermitage. First he built a small church and then a large one church. There she became a teacher, a Theonymfi nun. In fact, under the Hermitage statute of 1996, she is abbess for life.
The abbess and the four nuns appealed to the Court of Appeal against the decision of the Metropolitan of Mesogaia, Mr. Nikolaou to dismiss them from their duties, citing “anti-church behavior”. The court decision did not justify them, however the nun Theonymfi will remain in the Hermitage, which used to be her villa.
The “eviction”
But last year he faced new problems and this time the adventures were with the Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki. The latter, last April, issued three protocols. With the first, the nun Theonymfi was removed from the post of teacher of the Holy Hermitage of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Koropi and at the same time appointed the nun Salomi, of the Holy Monastery of Pantanassa, Keratea, as vicar. In the second, he ordered the nun Theonymfi to hand over the keys to the outer doors and the temple, as well as the Hermitage seal and books, while at the same time banning monks or monks from another ecclesiastical jurisdiction. that. And with the third protocol, he ordered that four nuns from Germany be removed immediately from the Hermitage, by “ecclesiological causes».
THE Metropolitan of the Mediterranean, as it became known, demanded the immediate removal of the four female monks, who were monks there from another fraternity, due to their serial anti-church behavior “They had caused a disturbance in the Church of Greece” and not only. Later, the metropolitan Mr. In a new letter to the nun Theonymfi, Nikolaos pointed out that he did not comply with his orders to remove the four nuns. However, the four nuns had registered at the Monastery of the Hermitage, after the nun, who exercised the functions of Mayor, had previously rejected the objections of said Metropolitan regarding their registration, for lack of legal and real basis. Thus, the metropolitan dismissed the nun Theonymfi from her duties, claiming physical and mental incapacity to perform them, while allowing her to remain at the Hermitage. At the same time, he formed a five-member committee of nuns and clergy, chaired by the first council of the diocese, with sole responsibility for taking care of his health, nutrition, and daily needs. To be removed, the despot claimed that although the four nuns had forbidden her to go through the Hermitage door, she sent them letters of invitation and then accepted them. In the same document he stated that the four nuns have “troubled ecclesiastical pastWhat connects him with his spiritual father Archimandrite Dionysios Kalambokas, with whom he is under his spiritual guidance. It adds that Dionysios Kalambokas has been suspended by the Synodal Court of Second Instance, as he has been given another 7.5-month temporary leave of absence. In another letter to the four disputed nuns, the Metropolitan disputes the “your graduation letters»(Ss.: Change of solitary roof) by the Archbishopric Stavropigio, since its approval was not previously requested, as required by the ecclesiastical order. He also claimed that Stavropigio and the other fraternities founded in Europe by Archimandrite Dionysios Kalambokas do not belong to the Moscow Patriarchate. Thus, according to the Metropolitan of Mesogaia, the “graduation lettersAs they originate from an unrecognized ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The call to SC
The five nuns then initially appealed to Council of State and demanded the nullity of the protocols and documents of said metropolitan. They asserted that the restrictions placed on the operation of the Hermitage violate religious freedom and freedom of association, which are enshrined in both the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. They also alleged that the contested acts were unlawful because they were flawed by improper reasoning. On the other hand, they report that by abuse of power, the metropolitan prevents the staffing of the Hermitage, since he has an eye on said property (of the Hermitage) and wishes to usurp it after the death of the nun Theonymfis, in order to possibly convert it in a private villa. However, the CV rejected this claim as unproven. However, before the annulment request was discussed in the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court of Cassation, the nun Theonymfi withdrew the petition and the legal dispute with the other four nuns continued. State advisers rejected all the accusations from the female monks as unfounded, unacceptable and based on an incorrect condition.
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