Moni Omplou, Achaia

Moni Omplou (Μονή Ομπλού) Achaia

Omplou Monastery is located in the Prefecture of Achaia and is built on the mountain that is today called Omplos. It is one of the most historic monasteries in modern Greece, which appears to have been involved in every important historical moment. The monastery during the Turkish occupation was an important attraction for many monks in the area, actively participated and was destroyed for its participation during the liberation struggles.

The Omplou Monastery was built in 1189 and took its name from the small church that existed in the area before its construction.

General elements

The monastery has an area of ​​about 1800 sq.m. and his katholikon is dedicated to the Entrances of the Virgin Mary. In the area of ​​the Monastery, there is also an internal chapel in honor of Agios Charalambos. Today, according to the 2011 national census, it has only six monks.

Designation

According to the historian S. Thomopoulos, the small church was built by Arvanites and was called "Oblit Panagia Koukour", meaning "Sweet Virgin of the mountain of cuckoo". Koukour in the Arvanite dialect, is attributed with the word koukos in the Greek language, from which the mountain was even named, before its renaming to Oblos. A document from the Great Cave states that the name comes from the "Arms and more vulgar Arms", meaning the word weapon.

Other historians and philologists have argued that it may have come from the "normal" or "Omalos" common place name in Epirus for landslides. In Moreau's chronicle there is also the phrase "In the river the alphabet, in Oblon they say it". Finally, another point of view for the name was that it has to do with clay, bee, Blue in Epirus and Bilia in Rhodes. Professor Andriotis, who in an article in 1972 in "Ellinika" claimed that the word holi (the nail of an animal or a human, a footprint, the path, as well as in Cyprus Obli) probably contributed to the research of the name, contributed significantly to the research. named Oblos. Hence the name is associated with a path in a wooded area, a passage of animals and people [3].

Historical data

The monastery has been destroyed by all the conquerors who passed through the area (Venetians, Turks, Germans) and has contributed significantly to all the revolutions and liberation struggles of the Greek Nation. After the "Orlofika" of 1770, the hordes of Albanians brought by the Ottomans to quell the revolution caused great destruction in the area. They set fire to the Monastery as well as the temples of Ag. Andreou and Ag. Catherine and the Nursing Home Monastery. The code of M. Omplou states that "in 1770, in April, the looting and destruction of Old Patras took place, as well as the burning of the monastery, consumption in the cells and the church instead of the Albanians". A document dated 13 May 1770 is also preserved, according to which the agades Suleiman and Mustafa state that the monks worshiped Mehmet Pasha and that no one should disturb them. The monastery's metochi in Patras was also burned by the Albanians and rebuilt in 1790.

At the beginning of the Revolution of 1821, the monastery was the supply center of the Patras camp. In the code of the Monastery there is a difficult reference for the beginning of the Revolution, where he says that on March 3, 1821, the revolution of Moria reached Omblos. Thomopoulos gives the possible interpretation that there was a pre-meeting for the Revolution. Revolutionaries gathered in Oblos on March 21-23 before descending on Patras. On March 23, Asimakis and Dimitrakis Zaimis and others wrote from Kalavrita to the abbot of Agia Lavra not to delay the delivery of food to Oblos because there is a danger that the army will be disbanded. On April 3, 1821, Yusuf Pasha arrived in Patras and broke the siege of the fortress, dispersing the camps of A. Zaimi and A. Londou. Andreas Zaimis around the end of May strengthened the defense around Oblos and repulsed an attack by the Turkalvans under Aslanakis.

In 1581 the monastery became the Stavropegian Monastery and in 1896 the Monastery of Agios Konstantinos was incorporated and became part of it.

References

"EL.STAT. - Permanent population of Greece. 2011 Census ”(PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved on 2 October 2016.
Thomopoulos 1903, p. 14
Triantafyllou 1995, p. 1492
Triantafyllou 1995, p. 1497
Polychronopoulou-Klada 2005, vol. 3

Lazaris (ed.) 1999, pp. 409-410

Sources

Results of the 2011 Population-Housing Census concerning the Permanent Population of the Country, Government Gazette of the Hellenic Republic, vol. 2, p. 3465 (28 December 2012).
Stefanou N. Thomopoulou, The Holy Monastery of Omplou, Types "Finikos" Irakleous P. Evmorfopoulou, In Patras 1903.
Vassilis K. Lazaris (ed.), Stefanou N. Thomopoulos "History of the City of Patras from ancient times until 1821". Fourth edition in the vernacular and based on the author's manuscripts, Volume II, Achaean Publications, Patras 1999. ISBN 960-7960-09-2. (especially pp. 405-412)
Nika Polychronopoulou-Klada, "The Monastery of Oblo and remarks on its archive (1315-1829)" at the 7th International Conference on Peloponnesian Studies, vol. 3, 2005.
Agamemnon Tselikas, "The legal documents of the monasteries of Oblou, Chrysopodaritissis, Agioi Panton and Gerokomeio of Patras (1712-1855). Diplomatic edition" in the Bulletin of the Historical and Paleographic Archive, volume I, Athens 2000 . ISSN 1108-6068.
"Messatida", magazine of the Municipality of Messatidos, issue 2

Bibliography

Costas N. Triantafyllou, Historical Dictionary of Patras, Volume II, Petrou Chr. Kouli, Patra 1995, Third Edition, Monai entry, Oblos entry.

External links

Official website of the monastery, omplos.org
Androma Community Monastery of Oblou, i-m-patron.gr. Retrieved: 03/10/2016.
Tourist guide of the Prefecture of Achaia - Monasteries, nea.gr. Retrieved from the archived original: 02/10/2016.

Community Krini Patron
Agios Konstantinos (Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος, ο)
Krini (Κρήνη, η)
Moni Omplou (Μονή Ομπλού, η)

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