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Imagine the emotion during the last mass in Aghia Sophia since they all knew the city was doomed to fall. A long, ancient chapter of human history was about to be closed...It was really a last stand. Honour to Costantine XI for choosing to fight among his soldiers till the end. And by the way i think he was smart enough to give away his boots to another soldier before the final charge. They never took his head, his body confused with other common soldiers.
it was not mass. Hagia Sophia was an Orthodox Cathedral, where the Patriarch of Constantinople was seated. Divine Liturgy is what they did in Hagia Sophia, only a handful of masses were done compared to the thousands of Divine Liturgies
@@deinhaus9925 sacked not even close to destroyed, and to be honest if you read about the role the byzantines played in the first crusade, the kinda had it coming.
@Dragon Dimosthenis I m Catholic and i apologize to all of my Orthodoxe brothers. The fourth crusade is a trully shame, WE have the same faith in GOD, The Holly Trinity ans le course in Christ, the Messi. Sorry for m'y ancestors , I hope Orthodoxe will forgive us one day, and de will reunit oursleves as the blessed time of the first Christian. Gros bless you brothers HalleluJah (Sorry for my very bad english)
@Dragon Dimosthenis The Patriarche or Rome is my Patriarche so I "Obey" to him but of course I consider with the same respect to thé others Patriarch. But you didnt undetstand what i said. For me the way to have the unity of all of Christians ( those who believe in the Christ and in the Holly Trinity) is the Christ and our faith in Him. PS: to proove you that we consider the others Patriarch with the same respects, Vatican had say that Catholics can go to orthodoxe chruch for the messe... PS: I know well History and dont think that Catholics are the only gulty... But I dont want conflict between us, WE have the same faith in GOD, so WE have to be reunifate ( that not mean that we need to have the exaclty same ceremony...) Please these evenings pray God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of David and all of the Prophetes, the true God, pray sincerely to know what toi have to do, as I do So if God want, try to convince your orthodxe brothers, as I do with my Catholics brothers And if God want it, one day we will be Christians brothers... God bless you God bless us
Build better walls, and develop new technologies for defensive and offensive purposes. More importantly: Build friendships and good relationships with all peoples, the best way to destroy your enemies is to turn them into your friends.
569 years ago today (as I write this on May 29th, 2022). God Bless Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, Giovanni Giustiniani and the Genoese of Chios, Loukas Notaras, Cardinal Isidore and his 200 Roman Catholic archers of the Papal States, and the Ottoman Sehzade Orhan Celebi and his 600 Muslim defectors who miraculously chose to defend rather than attack and condemn Orthodox Christianity. May these heroes and martyrs Rest in Eternal Peace within the embrace of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Today, 568 years ago, the queen of cities fell. Just a mere blip in the timeline of history. Glory to the brave fallen Christians and the great Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire Constantine XI Palaiologos. May they rest in peace.
The Prophet ﷺ is reported to have said, ‘Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!’ [Musnad Ahmad, Al Hakim, al Jami’ al Saghir] 🙏 i can imagine the pain but the best thing is to get over it. Peace💖
it still is every time as an Orthodox when I'm going either to the church or listen to Psalms or Chants we get the Nostalgia and sadness of this event. It s like loosing something due to our sins.
Christians abandon christians every single day. Look att the christians of iraq , syria. The turkish regime forces them to leave their lands and flee......this happens in front of the eyes of the world. No my friend ! Christians always abandon other christians.
Pope Innocent III reaction to the sack of the City: To Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainault You took upon yourselves the duty of delivering the Holy Land from the Infidel. You were forbidden under pain of excommunication from attacking any Christian lands, unless they refused you passage or would not help you (and even then you were to do nothing contrary to the wishes of my legate). You had no claims or pretensions to the lands of Greece. You were under the most solemn vows of Our Lord-and yet you have totally disregarded these vows. It was not against the Infidel but against Christians that you drew your sword. It was not Jerusalem that you captured but Constantinople. It was not heavenly riches upon which your minds were set, but earthly ones. But far and above all of this, nothing has been sacred to you-neither age nor sex. In the eyes of the whole world you have abandoned yourselves to debauchery, adultery and prostitution. You have not only violated married women and widows, but even women and virgins whose lives were dedicated to Christ. You have looted not only the treasures of the Emperor and of citizens both rich and poor, but have despoiled the very sanctuaries of God's Church. You have broken into holy places, stolen the sacred objects of altars-even including crucifixes-and you have pillaged innumerable images and relics of the Saints. It is hardly surprising that the Greek Church, beaten down though it is, rejects any obedience to the Apostolic See. It is hardly surprising that it sees in all Latins no more than treachery and the works of the Devil, and regards all of them as curs.
@Jonathan Williams I wouldn't say that, in the first crusade many of the people risked losing their lands to go on crusade. And it wasn't like they were planning on taking any lands (besides bohemond) since they all vowed to give any captured lands back to the byzantine empire. Only after they felt betrayed at Antioch did they brake the deal, and even then most of them simply returned home rather than try to take any land. Besides bohemond there was no evidence that earthly desires were the motive. And if it was then they did a terrible job at it.
@Jonathan Williams Oh there was most definitely risk of losing their lands. You leave your lands (which were surrounded by rival rulers) and have a subordinate run things while gone and hope he doesn't steal your lands. This actually happened to Richard the lionheart, his younger brother tried to steal his kingdom while he was gone. This sort of thing happens all the time when medieval rulers leave their kingdom. And they weren't stupid, they knew the risk.
The fall of Constantinople genuinely saddens me whenever I think of it. The fall of the last remnants of Rome, of the shield of Christendom, is one of history's greatest tragedies.
We had so many chances to take it back as well.. the russians were so close in taking Constantinople back in 1853 (Crimean war), but Russia was backstabbed by the english and the french who decided to assist the ottomanns against Russia.. but I know we will have it back some day
As a Roman Catholic, I am deeply pained to see what is happening to the Hagia Sophia in the former lands of Constantinople. This is a loss not just for the Orthodox, but for all of Christendom
Our dear Byzantine brothers, Greeks! We'll always stand with you in defence of our Holy Church and our mutual culture. Brotherly greetings from Orthodox Serbia!
Syrian Orthodox here. We may be overlooked but we exist and most of us have left our lands. We were commanded to turn our right cheeks but the question is for how long? Greetings from Damascus to all my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Constantinople fell …. 1000 years of Greco-Roman empire collapsed… if someone knows Greek the lyrics are very sad and emotional . May lord forgive us all for our sins ..
I see the fall of Constantinople as a lesson about life. Take nothing for granted in the world. Everything, even the things that seem mighty can be lost. Constantinople had been sieged 10 times before 1453 and had stood through the latter 9 of them. Even after the sack of 1204 the Empire rose again and the city survived. Perhaps that is why no one sent aid in great abundance or tried to relieve the besieged city. After a thousand years I am sure everyone thought Constanines city would always be there. And then it wasn't. And even if, as is the dream of many Christians, the city was taken back for Christendom again, it wouldn't be the same city that fell in 1453. That city is gone. What stands now is the fully Turkish Islamic Istanbul. Which hardly has any reminders that it was once the seat of a great Christian empire. So cherish all that God gives us in this life. For everything if finite. Like Solomon's temple, Constantines city, and Eden, some things are gone from this world forever.
God sent a sign to the monk who was praying for Constantinople to be saved. The sign was a hand holding up five fingers... Meaning that the city will be saved if at least five true Christians still remain in it. The corruption associated with empires affected the great city too. But after so many centuries of suffering and after the sins of the Turks will fill the cup, Constantinople will be returned to Orthodox Christians again and we will hear this Greek chant in the Hagia Sophia
@@alejandrop.s.3942 history is filled with instances where luck and last minute miracles save the day and the 'world'. Take Vienna 1683 for example, had it not been for Sobieski's charge the West of Europe would have been pushed to extinction. Same goes with Istanbul, the Theodosian Walls could not save it
@@alexb9969 I agree with you, but I think the siege of Vienna was the swansong of the Ottoman Empire as a super power. I doubt Western Europe would have fallen even if Vienna had been conquered.
This magnificent chant makes me weep. There is no greater or higher culture than the christian one. We live in an era where most europeans do not care anymore about their culture or believe in it, yet it was and is the greatest the earth has ever seen. Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me".
The christian culture is not European. It was born in Judea(Southern Kingdom in Israel), and meant for the world according to scriptures. East Europeans worshipped many Gods (that is part of their ancient culture), and we're not the person to get the Belief in Christ. Among the first were Egypt, Ethiopia (dark peoples in Africa), Assuria (syria), .... In western Europe, the city of Rome was the first though they also tortured the Fidel's of Christ extremely.
@@rb.5940true. But for many years, Europe was thoroughly Christian, and so much art, architecture, politics - everything - reflected the Holy Spirit. Then came abuses, corruption, decay. Satan is having his way now, because those who turn from the Truth will reap destruction. C‘est la vie. So ist es. Such is life.
Random fact. The Russians were on the verge of retaking the city twice in the 19th century but were stopped both times by British and French intervention to assist the Ottomans. So much for muh Christian struggle eh?
@@sun4502 The archbishop of Paris said this about the Crimean War: The war which France is starting with Russia is not a political war, but a holy war; it is not a war of state against state, a people against a people, but only a religious war…The real reason for this war is the need to push back the Photian heresy, to bludgeon it and to trample it down; such is the open aim of this crusade; such was the aim of all the crusades, although the participants in them did not recognise it.
@@dylanarslanian9309 the stupidest thing is that after 58 years, Britain will fight the Ottoman empire and try to capture Constantinople (Gallipoli campaign) together with Russia
As a Protestant who's an Eastern Roman fanboy, this almost brings me to tears. Almost, because I've already shed my tears rewatching the fall of the Western Roman Empire. By God in Heaven, how Constantine and all the Great Eastern Emperors wouldve wept...
Today, 10th July 2020, the announcement was made of Holy Sophia turning back into mosque. What was built as cathedral, and turned as a mosque for centuries, deserves to be a museum, to be given to humanity, as Atatürk said. Shameful...
Dude erdogan left the Turkish people ignorant and made the Turkish people enemies of Ataturk I am from Turkey there is only religious exploitation here
There are also hundreds of folk songs (laments) from every corner of Greece and beyond, for the "Fall of the City of Cities" as being called. From my place, Halkidiki, Northern Greece, there is one called "Simenei i Thios". Simainei i Thios, simainei i gis, simainoun ta epourania... In free translation: "God is signing, the earth and celestial too, Agia Sophia the great monastery is ringing (the bells) with 400 semantra (wooden) and 62 (metal bells). In every bell a priest, beside every priest a deacon. The King is chanting to the left, Patriarch to the right, and so loud was the psalm that the columns of the temple were wobbling. While they were ready for the Cherubic hymn and the King's exit, a loud voice came from the sky, from an archangel's mouth: -Stop the Cherubic hymn and lower the hexapterygs, you priests take the holy relics, and candles go off! Because it's God's will for the City to be turkified. Send letter to Francia (West), to send 3 ships, the first to take the Holy Cross, the second the Holy Bible, the best of the three our Holy Altar, in order not to be dishonored. The Virgin Mary was disturbed and from the holy icons tears were running. - Please Virgin Mary (Kyra Despoina), stay silent and stop crying, once upon a time there will be ours again..." Well, these are the lyrics, which are quite panhellenic in different variations, from Pontus, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, even from Magna Grecia in Italy and some from the Balkans.
I have re-read Steven Runciman’s Fall of Constantinople 1453 several times. Each time, I hope it will end differently and it never does. The loss is sickening and leaves its scars to this day.
I admit, I am ignorant of the Fall of Constantinople and its impact on both Christendom and history in general. But after reading this comment, I knew I had to buy this book and educate myself. So I immediately hopped on Amazon and purchased a copy.
I am a Muslim and I feel heartbreaking to hear this. I cannot imagine the feeling of Emperor Constantine, the people of the city and the Orthodox world when the city was falling into the hands of the Ottoman Islamic Sultanate. I respected the courage of an emperor who did not flee and chose to fight to the end.
We , as Catholics , are equally guilty of the fall of Constantinople than Ottoman were . Ultimately this City was part of the Roman Empire for a Millennia ( longer than Rome itself ) , but what Man create always crumble over time .
Legend has it that when the turks entered the Haghia Sophia the HOLY Liturgy was taking place and the priests who where performing it Vanished before it ended at the Eucharist never to be found by the Turks. They disappeared with the Chalice and the other religious relics on the altar and when the day comes when the City is back on Orthodox Hands they will return to finish the Sermon to Honor God once again!
@LetsGoSpain !!! no, Atheism will be the end. Atheism the problem facing your religion, wake up buddy. There will never be another great Christian Empire or Kingdom. Atheism is taking over. Even if Istanbul is captured again, them ortho's will convert to Atheism. Wake up if you really care. Islam is on your side against Atheism. Atheism wants us all annihilated.
@@gandalfthegrey2592 You are correct, atheism is a greater threat. And no amount of violence will ever stop it, only through love and peace can people return to God.
@mahmut mahmutoglu Medieval my *ss, Christianity began 2000 years ago. Definitely not medieval, peak of Antiquity in the years of Tiberius and Augustus. Islam isn't a semetic myth, adding myth in front of the world religion doesn't mean sh*t. Atheists think they are too smart for religion. What arrogance. And no, the best thing to happen for the turks was their conversion to Islam. Which helped transform you into one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations in history, the same thing happened with the Arabs. But guess what, what the west has done is not progress. In a world where the 20ish year old Alexander could conquer the known world, our 18 years old worry about failing their exams. Goddamn, so much progress! Scientific and more equal rights is the only thing that was progress.
@@Santino369 it means the true capital of Greece 🇬🇷, the capital of the Rhomaioi, the Center of our Church. It means all of Greece’s ambitions and of Greek peoples everywhere from Magna Graecia where the community of Italian Greeks, Grikos, I am descended from still lives to the farthest reaches of Anatolia. It means reclaiming what is ours while not harming those who have harmed us. It’s the symbol of our hopes and dreams as a people, united under a new Greek Imperial family and committed to our faith. It’s the symbol of centuries of ambitions of freeing ourselves from Ottoman rule and reclaiming the birthright. It’s both necessary and desirable.
@@carterwinslow6744 Well Carter its beautiful what you said. It shows that it's coming from your heart and I understand that. We all feel attached to our identities and our past glorious days. But you know, I think that this somehow hinders us as people and keeps us stuck somewhere in the past. I'm not Greek neither Chrisrian, but the lament made me so emotional and felt sad as if I'm from Constantinople. No doubt it was a great city and great Empire, but that's history. Nations rise and fall. It doesnt mean that we have to keep thinking that someone stabbed us in the back and we have to revenge. I mean what made Constantinople great was it's people in that time, but also it's people somehow became weaker and lost it. It's not that Greeks now or Italians are weak and it's their fault, because they are different people. I mean you weren't living in that time. It's the history of ur ancestors but you live now and you should make your country good. Not necessarily to be the same as Constantinople because nothing can be identical to something else. And the faith you talk about, well I think it's in your heart whether you are living in Greec or China or even another planet. It's yours. That's why I think what matters is the human where ever he/she lives. Human dignity should be the number one priority and based on how much such dignity respected, countries greatness should be measured.
We didn't even ask if it became a cathedral again, only that it remain a museum, to celebrate both religions. They denied us and conquered the Hagia Sophia again.:(
My brothers and sisters in Christ. I see it now. One day East and West shall reunite and we will hold the beautiful city of Constantinople yet again. We've had our nose bleeding from the Ottoman punch for quite some time but soon we shall rise and once again have Holy Mass in the Hagia Sophia yet again. Pray and persevere. My God bless you
Ya cidden bu haçlı zihniyeti yenilgiye doymuyor işleri hep alavere dalavere. Tarih yazılmış ve yenilmiş bir ordunuz var artık Türk ile savaşılmayacağını anlamış olmanızı isterdim ama yok illaki yine de alacağız diyorsunuz. Gelin tatil yapın gezin görün eğlenin ama dalagalanan Türk Bayrağını indirmeyi düşünmeyin çünkü ölürsünüz 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇷
Ὁ θεός, ἤλθοσαν ἔθνη, ἤλθοσαν, ἤλθοσαν ἔθνη εἰς τὴν κληρονομί… εἰς τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, ἐμίαναν τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου, ἐμίανα... χα... χα... χαν τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου, ἐμίαναν, Κύριε, ἔθεντο τὰ θνησιμαῖ... χαῖ...α τῶν δούλων σου βρώ... βρώματα τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὰς σάρκας τῶν ὁσίων σου τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς· ἐξέχεαν, ἐξέχεαν, ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν, κύριε, ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν ὡς ὕδωρ κύκλῳ Ιερουσαλημ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ θάπτων. ἐγενήθημεν, ἐγενήθημεν ὄνειδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, μυκτηρισμὸς καὶ χλευασμὸς τοῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν. ἕως πότε, κύριε - πάλιν - ἕως πότε, κύριε, ὀργισθήσῃ εἰς τέλος, ἐκκαυθήσεται ὡς πῦρ ὁ ζῆλός σου; ἕως πότε, κύριε ἔκχεον τὴν ὀργήν σου, ἔκχεον, ἔκχεον τὴν ὀργήν σου ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ γινώσκοντά σε σε καὶ ἐπὶ βασιλείας, αἳ τὸ ὄνομά σου οὐκ ἐπεκαλέσαντο... μὴ μνησθῇς ἡμῶν ἀνομιῶν ἀρχαίων· ἀλλὰ βοήθησον ἡμῖν ταχὺ καὶ ἐλέησόν ἡμᾶς. O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild. They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us. How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire? Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name; Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, and have mercy of us.
As a Latter-day Saint (popularly known as mormon) I'm really sad for this news. As a member of the Christian faith, I do support Hagia Sophia for our Orthodox brothers, the original builders of such wonderful house of God
I was heartbroken 😭💔 since I heard about what happened ..... I really hope that God will prevent this from happening before 24'th of July anyway ..... Christian orthodox from Egypt ♥️✝️
The Turks boast that the city has been in Muslim hands for over 500 years now, yet how soon they forget Andalusia was Muslim for over 700 years before Christian rule was restored.
@@TamarMebonia The Turks Conquered Anatolia in 1071 though. They assimilated all the native Anatolian populations. Now , all natives have been Turkified and are called ''Turkish''. But how many Turkish with Mongoloid/Turkic characteristics have you seen? The Turks established themselves on this land that way. Do you really believe we can wake up all these people(like 75%+ of the Turkish) who have been identifying as Turks for 1000 years and tell them that they aren't actually Turks in their blood but Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Hittites, Circassians...? It can never happen. Let's be realistic. The Turkish ethnogenesis happened and can't be reversed.
@@kullancad643 That's why Turks from Western turkey get 60%-80% Greek in their DNA tests? Real Turks ,like the ones in central Asia are Mongoloid people. Very few people in Turkey have mongoloid characteristics like slit eyes.
Touching to see that not everyone has moved on and still see the city has being under occupation, there is no statute of limitations on such great historical injustices.
@@BringDHouseDown The modern Turkish state is not "Islamic rule" by a long shot, and this is coming from someone who despises its policies towards ethnic minorities. Turkey has gone further than almost any other country in promoting secularism. And saying that Turks and Arabs are of the same "ilk" is beyond stupid.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 That's true, but Erdogan and the AKP's election-oriented tomfoolery don't change the fundamental character of the Turkish state. An authoritarian state in many regards for sure, but a highly secular one as well.
@Ali Kılıç Byzantium is the ancient name of the city before it was named Constantinople and as you said, the ottoman ruler declared himself Ceasar of Rome, that doesn't mean he was Roman. The ottoman empire was never Roman in any way except the capital being Constantinople or İstanbul.
Our dear Byzantine brothers, Greeks! We'll always stand with you in defence of our Holy Church. Brotherly greetings from Malankara Orthodox ! The fall of Constantinople genuinely saddens me!
*"As years go by, as ages leave us dead* *What once was ours, shall be once again"* Here to hoping Greeks retake Constantinople and the Anatolian Coast Greetings from Montenegro.
@@Ezio2713 Gladly, From Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Erasthothenes, Euclid, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Homer, Hippocrates, Aristarchus, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Pericles, Leonidas, Herodotus, Anaximander and many many more that I trust you, as a Greek would know more than I do... No other civilization has come close to producing the number of great individuals that the Greeks have.. Your ancestors were the pioneers of so many fields, and your policies of government, discoveries and mathematical theorems stand strong to this very day... Your people were the beacon of civilization of that age and time. O dear Greek, and look at how far you've fallen.. When people think of Greece and Greeks today, they think of a country heavily in debt, maybe even broke, and depending on the EU for bailouts.. it's a joke... It's just so damn sad...😞😔 Even to this day, when people look back to those Greeks, they look at them with admiration and pride.. At least I do.. O dear Greek..
@@xunqianbaidu6917 Russia is Orthodox and are extremely religious. Same with Greece. In the future if they team up against Turkey possibly Konstantinopel will be Orthodox again.
@Omega Centauri Not really. Constantinople had never been taken before, even with Arab Invasions of 150'000 soldiers. The Byzantine Empire in 1204 was a corrupt and dysfunctional.
Infighting as well. Had there been only two Byzantines, and the Empire a single mound of dirt-- the one would have blinded the other so as to take away his claim to it.
@Omega Centauri Pretty funny considering the odds they faced in 1453 was what? 7000 against 200000? the turks outnumbered them 28 to 1 and still suffered stupidly high casualties.
The Turth is you oWe to Turks they saved that place..After Latins destroyed it halfly..and used as wharehouse..All the sultans even modern Turkey spent toons of gold to keep that ancient building alive..Can you show anything similar to Agia sophia still alive ?? SO
According to your logic ! Spain was is and will always be Muslim ) Hundreds of our mosques were turned to churches. The problem that we also believe in Jesus .. and waiting in his return. Complicated world
@@youssefserfati198 no because Spain was Christian before it was muslim...Constantinople wasnt...also you people dont believe in the trinity therefore you dont truly believe in Jesus
George Sprantzes - The Fall of the Byzantine Empire 1453 primary source from the war. Constantine Palaologus XI speaks before his officers and allies before the final siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Bey Most noble leader, illustrious tribunes, generals, most courageous fellow soldiers and all loyal honest citizens! You know well that the hour has come: the enemy of our faith wishes to oppress us even more closely by sea and land with all his engines and skill to attack us with the entire strength of this siege force, as a snake about to spew its venom; he is in a hurry to devour us, like a savage lion. For this reason I am imploring you to fight like men with brave souls, as you have done from the beginning up to this day, against the enemy of our faith. I hand over to you my glorious, famous, respected, noble city, the shining Queen of cities, our homeland. You know well, my brothers, that we have four obligations in common, which force us to prefer death over survival: first our faith and piety; second our homeland; third, the emperor anointed by the Lord and fourth; our relatives and friends. “Well, my brothers, if we must fight for one of these obligations, we will be even more liable under the command strength of all four; as you can clearly understand. If God grants victory to the impious because of my own sins, we will endanger our lives for our holy faith, which Christ gave us with his own blood. This is most important of all. Even if one gains the entire world but loses his soul in the process, what will it benefit! Second, we will be deprived of such famous homeland and of our liberty. Third, our empire, renowned in the past but presently humbled, low and exhausted, will be ruled by a tyrant and an impious man. Fourth, we will be separated from our dearest children, wives and relatives. “This wretch of a Sultan has besieged our city up to now for fifty seven days with all his engines and strength; he has relaxed the blockade neither day nor night, but, by the grace of Christ, our Lord, who sees all things, the enemy has often been repelled, up to now, from our walls with shame and dishonor. Yet now too, my brothers, feel no cowardice, even if small parts of our fortifications have collapsed from the explosions and engine missiles, as you can see, we made all possible, necessary repairs. We are placing all hope in the irresistible glory of God. Some have faith in armament, others in cavalry, might and numbers but we believe in the name of our Lord, our God and Savior, and second, in our arms and strength granted to us by divine power. “I know the countless hordes of the impious will advance against us, according to their custom, violently, confidently and with great courage and force in order to overwhelm and wear out our few defenders with hardship. They attempt to frighten us with loud yells and innumerable battle cries. But you are all familiar with their chattering and I need say no more about it. For a long time they will continue so and will also release over us countless rocks, all sorts of arrows and missiles, like the sand of the sea. But I hope that such things will not harm us; I see, greatly rejoice, and nourish with hopes in my mind that even if we are few, you are all experienced and seasoned warriors- courageous, brave, and well prepared. Protect your heads with shields in combat and battle. Keep your right hand, armed with the sword, extended in front of you at all times. Your helmets, breastplates and suits of armor are fully sufficient together with your other weapons and will prove very effective in battle. Our enemies have no and use no such weapons. You are protected inside the walls, while they will advance without cover and with toil. “For these reasons, my fellow soldiers, prepare yourselves, be firm, and remain valiant, for the pity of God, Take your example from the few elephants of the Carthaginians and how they dispersed the numerous cavalry of the Romans with their noise and appearance. If one dumb beast put another to flight, we, the masters of horses and animals, can surely even do better against our advancing enemies, since they are dumb animals, worse even than pigs. Present your shield, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with their lords and masters, the descendants of the Greeks and the Romans. “You are well aware that this irreligious Sultan, the enemy of our holy faith, violated for no good reason the peace treaty we had with him and disregarded his numerous oaths without a second thought. Suddenly, he appeared and built his castle in the straights of Asomatosso he might be able to inflict daily harm on us. Then he put our farms, gardens, parks, and houses to the torch, while he killed and enslaved as many of our Christian brothers as he found; he broke the treaty of friendship. He befriended the inhabitants of Galata, the wretches rejoice over this, as they are unaware of the parable of the Farmer’s son who was roasting snails and said, “Oh stupid creature,” etc. Well my brothers, since he started the siege and the blockade, every day he opens his fathomless mouth and is seeking an opportunity to devour us and this city, which thrice-blessed Constantine the Great founded and dedicated to the all holy most chaste Mother of God, our lad, Mar the eternal virgin. She became the Queen of Cities, the shield and aid of our homeland, the shelter of Christians, the hope and joy of all wishes to destroy this city, which was once proud and blooming like a rose of the field. “I can tell you that this city mastered the entire universe; She placed beneath her feet Pontus, Armenia, paphlagonia, The Amazonian lands, Cappadocia, Galatia, Media, Georgian Colchis, Bosphoros, Albania, Syria, Cilicia, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Arabia, Judea, Bactria, Scythia, Macedonia, Thessaly, Hellas, Boeotia, Locris, Aetolia, Arcarnania, Achaea, the Peloponnese, Epirus, Illyria, Lykhnites, the Adriatic, Italy, Tuscany, the Celts, and Galatian Celts, Spain up to Cadiz, Libya, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Beledes, Scude, Numidia, Africa and Egypt. Now he wants to enslave her and throw the yoke upon the Mistress of Citie, our holy churches, where the Holy Trinity was worshipped, where the Holy Ghost was glorified in hymns, where angels were heard praising in chant the deity of and the incarnation of God’s word, he wants to turn into shrines of his blasphemy, shrines of the mad and false Prophet, Mohammed, as well as into stables for his horses and camels. “Consider then, my brother and comrades in arms, how the commemoration of our death, our memory, fame and freedom can be rendered eternal.”
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 you have to read also the answer of Konstantinos Palaeologos the 11th East Roman Emperor to The Sultan Is another ,ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ ,of the 300 hundred Spartans, 1900 years back. COME AN GET IT ,WE HAVE DECIDEDTO DEFEND IT.................
Thank you for posting this. I really do admire him and he was a definitely a hero for sure. Such a horrible tragedy no thanks to the failings and cowardice of Western Christianity and the Pope. I hope I'll be able to see the Hagia Sophia and some of the ancient remnants of Constantinople before Erdogan the Nazi-Islamofascist destroys them.
@@occles Erdogan is also buddy-buddy with President Putin, who would *not* take kindly to the destruction of Hagia Sophia. So no, that is not going to happen.
my soul weeps for hagia sophia. When i visited hagia sophia one year ago, it made me so sad because she looked like an old and very sad angel she suffered a lot but was still a standing warrior. Now disrespect is made for her past.
Turkish government has now officially declared Hagia Sophia a mosque. They'll put curtains on the Christian iconography. The sacrilege pains me beyond measure.
Mustafa Kemal Atatatürk ,made Hagia Sophia a museum. erdoğan turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Atatürk,modern secular. erdogan,radical islamist. Im Turk and atheist. i wish hagia sophia remained museum
The fall of Byzantium and konstantinoupoli greatly saddens me. Glory to the fallen Christian’s including Constantine XI the palaiologos for sacrificing their lives and freedom for orthodoxy passion and love for the nation
Agia Sophia is older than Islam itself! Yet they call the house of the lord...our great Church.....the center of all Christian Orthodoxy......the heart of our great City of Constantinople......they call it theirs. Wake up our Marble King! Again with years and time.....again it will be ours!
@@resulcan4734 no offence but how, the Turks are deeply confused people, recognising their roots in the Turkic ethnic group and assuming brotherhood in the east - all while being desperate to be seen as worthy by Europeans. Turks are seen almost universally as unworthy and unwelcome would be conquerors. To try and say Istanbul is always Turkish is a joke. The name itself is perhaps a century old at best, and the ottoman sultans were eager to champion themselves the successors of Rum
May the Divine Liturgy be held again at the magnificent Church of the Holy Wisdom of God, Hagia Sophia (Αγία Σοφία). Glory be to You, Christ our God, glory be to You (Δόξα Σοι, Χριστέ ο Θεός ημών, δόξα Σοι)!
not going to happen.. Hagia Sophia is a Unesco museum and is no longer a practicing house of worship, be it mosque or church... and better for it.. the splendour of the building can be studied and appreciated by all..
The Turkish Govoenment would never allow it. The Hagia Sophia should become as the Sepulcre is. Where the West and the East can come together to worship under the same roof. Constantinople (the rightful name of Istanbul) doesn't need a Museum laid on Holy Ground.
@@secretman9120 The land was and will never be ours, take it, take Rome, take Moscow too take them all ... our Christendom and our Kingdom is not from nor on this earth, you will never understand this
It has been 500 years, but reading through the comments, it seems like the sadness are still there. It is time to look to the future with peace among humans. Let's strive for peace in humanity. Each city on Earth is ours and each city is holy. No need a retaking anymore of Constantinople or Jerusalem again. We are citizens of the world like what the great Greek philosophers from the Stoa school used to say. May peace be with you today.
Well, an Empire which paid tributes for their survival to almost every conqueror (huns, arabs, sassanids, bulgarians, pechenegs...) I would not call them the Greatest, in spite of some formidable emperors such as Basil II. It was a dissapointing kingdom for me, too far from their pretended roman heritage which only Belisarius could emulate.
@Renan Uysal I think you're quite confused, mixing up mythology, history, culture...The Aeneid was written by Ovid if I recall correctly, just a fiction work which hasn't been proved to have any real basis. Yes, they called themselves Romans, and the Ottomans knew them as Rüm if I recall correctly, but it was clearly a Greek nation. For instance, the Emperor was called Basileos instead of Caesar. Russia claimed that Moscow was the third Rome and intended to be the Roman Empire heirs, would you call them Romans? Would you call Romans to every modern nation which is the result of the dismemberment of the Roman Empire? Would you consider Roman to the Germanic emperors who took the title of Holy Roman Emperor? Everyone has his own way of thinking, and mine is than Eastern Roman Empire wasn't really Roman but a Greek nation, seed of modern Greece.
@Renan Uysal Yes, and the Julii family descended from Venus-Aphrodite...the Aeneid was sheer nationalistic Roman propaganda of its time, which intended to give the Romans a mythic and epic past, and link Augustus with the divinity. Anyway, if you think that the Eastern Roman Empire was purely Roman I won't argue with you, but I don't think so.
That art work is beautiful, in a sad way. As beautiful as Constantinople was, as much as we'd all die to go back and just catch a glimpse of those walls, and that beautiful dome of Hagia Sophia rising above the sparkling sea under a switft sunrise... my brothers, the eternal city of God will be yet more beautiful still, lit only by the glory of His presence. Stay the course, Christ is with us ☦✝
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name. They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.” They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land. Psalm 74:7-8
Christian trying to reconnect with Christ, this Song genuinely made me tear up out of sheer Sadness and Inspiration. Thinking about the men and women in Ukraine bravely giving their lives to fight against Oppression. Just as the Crusaders of old did to the Turkish invaders. They Killed the knights, but couldn't kill their Faith in Christ, which is genuinely beautiful and Heartbreaking to me. I hope to see Jesus one day.
My father is from Greece and my mother is from Turkey. Let the wars stay in the past guys. We must get united under the beauty of Aegean Sea. We are stronger together. Thinking about wars we had, just brings more collapses. So forget the past, focus on our future. Try not to do more mistakes that we did in the past. Much respect and love
Beautifully doleful. Such an unspeakable tragedy. A very rough translation into English for those interested: O God, the nations have come, the nations have come upon your inheritance! They stained, they stained your holy temple, Lord, they set the carcasses of your servants upon the ground as food for the birds of heaven the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth. They poured out their blood, O Lord, they poured out their blood as water around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them We have become, we have become a reproach to our neighbors sarcasm and mockery to those round about us. How long, O Lord? Again, how long, O Lord, will you be angry forever, will the fire of your zeal burn as fire? How long, O Lord? Pour out your anger, pour, pour out your anger upon the nations that do not know you, and upon the kingdoms which do not call upon you by name. Do not remember our lawless deeds from of old, but help us quickly and have mercy upon us.
hey i'm turkish and i like this chant. I live in Istanbul and it's a gorgeus place with some awesome Byzantine and Turkish culture. hope you guys come to visit someday
@@yagzozandibek5196 Then you are thieves still. You pretend like Istanbul is a mix of Byzantine and Ottomans culture, but really it is just Ottoman Turkish with full Islamic law. The Christians in Istanbul have to try to hide their identity as quietly as possible.
How can you fulfill the prophecies when y'all have taken your prophet as your God. Woe to y'all, the God is above all. We call him Allah. He's the God of Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Moses, Isa and Muhammad (peace be upon them).
@@onegod8265 Jesus isn't a prophet and we see the prophecies being fulfilled with our own eyes today. Jesus is coming back and when he does all knees will bow to him and say he is God.
I'm not a Roman fanboy. The Byzantine Empire was imperfect, but it's still sad to see what happen to the greatest city of Christendom. One day the Hagia Sophia will be nice again a Christian. God willing.
Saddens me to know there is very little unity left among Christians. Faith is shrinking everyday. I hold a thought for all brothers and sisters in Christ, that we may not abandon him.
@Da Pacem Domine No, the west thwarted all subsequent attempts to liberate the Christians of the East, for example 1853, of which the "archbishop" Sibour said: "The war which France is starting with Russia is not a political war, but a holy war; it is not a war of state against state, a people against a people, but only a religious war…The real reason for this war is the need to push back the Photian heresy, to bludgeon it and to trample it down; such is the open aim of this crusade; such was the aim of all the crusades, although the participants in them did not recognise it."
They may have desecrated the beautiful Hagia Sophia, but they will never be able to sully the Kingdom of Heaven. Peace unto you all, from an American Protestant. May we all, Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, Assyrian, and etc. reunite under the singular banner of Jesus Christ our Lord. A house divided against itself cannot stand. One day we will all bow to Him in unison, not as enemies, but in fellowship.
They will see their sins in worshipping a false idol a little too late, they knew what their actions would bestow on them so why would they need God’s mercy if they have abandoned his path?
Love this chant and the Turks had a very hard time trying to take down the walls. The empire was heavily guarded by different archery infantry such as men from Thessalonica, Athens, Byzantine Guards, and Trebizond archers but include the men who used Greek fire weapons to destroy siege towers. Eastern Roman Empire is civilization. Respect from Mexico. When I look the Constantinople, it reminds the fall of Tenochtitlán, the most ancient city of the gods we used to worshipped them.
Well remember the choice turban or tiara? Dumb move. All orthodox Christians with patriarchs (Ukraine as an example) cannot unite because of....reasons?? Protestants are worse. Remember the time when the ottomans and other rulers appointed Orthodox patriarchs. Yet Catholics should remove the ruler of the Church?
I genuinly believe it when i say that the fall of the Byzantine Empire was one of the greatest tragedies in the history of western & middle eastern civilizations . So many things would be completely different if it never happened , our world would be almost unrecognizable today
At this point it doesnt matter whether you are Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant. If you're from the Christian world, Your heart is ripped in pieces for Constantinople and for Hagia Sophia "mosque" news. It hurts all of us. And it will never stop hurting
This made me cry and this song is enough to make a gigachad cry Rest in peace my beloved Byzantium I want to become the new Emperor of Rome and I will be called Entouin I Palaiologos and I’m not Greek I am Mexican and I will convert all of mexico to orthodox Christianity. My proud kingdom of the 2nd Byzantine Empire.
Blessed are the ones who perished in the battle and didn’t live to see the aftermath. What happened to the people and the city, especially the holy temples….truly an historical turning point from which we (Christians) never recovered.
O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance. Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, and by virtue of Thy Cross, preserve Thy habitation. +++
It is how God should be revered. The songs of the heretic Protestants do not resemble a liturgy to God and are not fit to prayer. They have completely lost their way.
Orestis Georgiou how dare you call fellow Christians heretic? In wich way are the protestants so ”wrong”? Can you support any thing wrong with protestants with evidence from the Bible?
You westerners took arms against the islamic blight only when they reached the walls of your precious Vienna... Left us to ROT for more than four centuries. The South is alone, always. Love and respect for our Greek brethren.
Greatings from Romania Orthodoxes Brothers and Sisters! "So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known" Matthew 10,26 "Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul" Psalm 54,4 If we have faith, like jewish in Egypt, our Constantinopol will be free!!! God bless and help us! Kyrie eleison!!!
Good evening,
Please turn on captions for the English translation, you can help us translate this chant into your language via this link :ruclips.net/user/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=HGvMXgIr6js
Thanks for this wonderful vedio.🖤
Absolutely beautiful and so relaxing
Thank you very much for your work here. God the heavenly father bless you in the name of Jesus Christ
I just sent my translation in my mother tongue but it's nowhere to be found. I don't know why but if you can please check it :)
Shalom! Greetings from Indonesia, Southeast Asia. I have submitted the subtitle in Bahasa Indonesia @Adoration of the Cross
Imagine the emotion during the last mass in Aghia Sophia since they all knew the city was doomed to fall. A long, ancient chapter of human history was about to be closed...It was really a last stand. Honour to Costantine XI for choosing to fight among his soldiers till the end. And by the way i think he was smart enough to give away his boots to another soldier before the final charge. They never took his head, his body confused with other common soldiers.
I never knew of the Emperor's incredible humility. May God grant him the Treasures of Heaven.
it was not mass. Hagia Sophia was an Orthodox Cathedral, where the Patriarch of Constantinople was seated. Divine Liturgy is what they did in Hagia Sophia, only a handful of masses were done compared to the thousands of Divine Liturgies
@@ethandetienne1904 and yet Catholics too joined during the siege
@@wilmerbesitan1200 and before destroyd the city in the crusade in 1204
@@deinhaus9925 sacked not even close to destroyed, and to be honest if you read about the role the byzantines played in the first crusade, the kinda had it coming.
Our Byzantine walls may fall, our faith in God will never.
Amen bro
but what about our firmer god faith in turkey???
@Dragon Dimosthenis I m Catholic and i apologize to all of my Orthodoxe brothers.
The fourth crusade is a trully shame, WE have the same faith in GOD, The Holly Trinity ans le course in Christ, the Messi.
Sorry for m'y ancestors , I hope Orthodoxe will forgive us one day, and de will reunit oursleves as the blessed time of the first Christian.
Gros bless you brothers
HalleluJah
(Sorry for my very bad english)
@Dragon Dimosthenis The Patriarche or Rome is my Patriarche so I "Obey" to him but of course I consider with the same respect to thé others Patriarch.
But you didnt undetstand what i said. For me the way to have the unity of all of Christians ( those who believe in the Christ and in the Holly Trinity) is the Christ and our faith in Him.
PS: to proove you that we consider the others Patriarch with the same respects, Vatican had say that Catholics can go to orthodoxe chruch for the messe...
PS: I know well History and dont think that Catholics are the only gulty... But I dont want conflict between us, WE have the same faith in GOD, so WE have to be reunifate ( that not mean that we need to have the exaclty same ceremony...)
Please these evenings pray God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of David and all of the Prophetes, the true God, pray sincerely to know what toi have to do, as I do
So if God want, try to convince your orthodxe brothers, as I do with my Catholics brothers
And if God want it, one day we will be Christians brothers...
God bless you
God bless us
Build better walls, and develop new technologies for defensive and offensive purposes. More importantly: Build friendships and good relationships with all peoples, the best way to destroy your enemies is to turn them into your friends.
569 years ago today (as I write this on May 29th, 2022). God Bless Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, Giovanni Giustiniani and the Genoese of Chios, Loukas Notaras, Cardinal Isidore and his 200 Roman Catholic archers of the Papal States, and the Ottoman Sehzade Orhan Celebi and his 600 Muslim defectors who miraculously chose to defend rather than attack and condemn Orthodox Christianity. May these heroes and martyrs Rest in Eternal Peace within the embrace of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Amen ❤😢
Anathema
Please educate me with more of these facts
Today, 568 years ago, the queen of cities fell. Just a mere blip in the timeline of history. Glory to the brave fallen Christians and the great Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire Constantine XI Palaiologos. May they rest in peace.
May they and the glory of their noble city never be forgotten.
of course. Wherever the Turks had conquered, even their enemies can rest in peace.
@@numanaydin4361
Of Course when Israel conquered Jerusalem arab leaders became rest in peace
@@numanaydin4361 israel ❤️
Why did the Great kings and queens left their own religion n took up Christianity? Just Asking from India
the fall of Constantinople a true tragedy for all Christendom
slender spy Hahahahahhahaah
@@barbarosturpcu what is so funny?
The Prophet ﷺ is reported to have said, ‘Verily you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful leader will her leader be, and what a wonderful army will that army be!’ [Musnad Ahmad, Al Hakim, al Jami’ al Saghir]
🙏 i can imagine the pain but the best thing is to get over it. Peace💖
it still is every time as an Orthodox when I'm going either to the church or listen to Psalms or Chants we get the Nostalgia and sadness of this event. It s like loosing something due to our sins.
@@justm6306 Get over the fact Spain now belongs to Christians. 💖
This chant Is about a message to all the Christians, never again to abandon a fellow christian !!!
Christians abandon christians every single day. Look att the christians of iraq , syria. The turkish regime forces them to leave their lands and flee......this happens in front of the eyes of the world. No my friend ! Christians always abandon other christians.
@@sammyl2071 Yes even Britain has abandoned White South Africans..
@@thatchannel195 True
Great comment ❤️✝️
@East The ''west''' are NOT christians!
Pope Innocent III reaction to the sack of the City:
To Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainault
You took upon yourselves the duty of delivering the Holy Land from the Infidel. You were forbidden under pain of excommunication from attacking any Christian lands, unless they refused you passage or would not help you (and even then you were to do nothing contrary to the wishes of my legate). You had no claims or pretensions to the lands of Greece. You were under the most solemn vows of Our Lord-and yet you have totally disregarded these vows. It was not against the Infidel but against Christians that you drew your sword. It was not Jerusalem that you captured but Constantinople. It was not heavenly riches upon which your minds were set, but earthly ones. But far and above all of this, nothing has been sacred to you-neither age nor sex. In the eyes of the whole world you have abandoned yourselves to debauchery, adultery and prostitution. You have not only violated married women and widows, but even women and virgins whose lives were dedicated to Christ. You have looted not only the treasures of the Emperor and of citizens both rich and poor, but have despoiled the very sanctuaries of God's Church. You have broken into holy places, stolen the sacred objects of altars-even including crucifixes-and you have pillaged innumerable images and relics of the Saints. It is hardly surprising that the Greek Church, beaten down though it is, rejects any obedience to the Apostolic See. It is hardly surprising that it sees in all Latins no more than treachery and the works of the Devil, and regards all of them as curs.
This refers to the events of the 4th crusade, but the song is about the fall of Constantinople to the Turks in the 15 century. Not unrelated though
Thank you for this post, really gives another layer of depth to the sound entering my ears.
@Jonathan Williams
I wouldn't say that, in the first crusade many of the people risked losing their lands to go on crusade. And it wasn't like they were planning on taking any lands (besides bohemond) since they all vowed to give any captured lands back to the byzantine empire. Only after they felt betrayed at Antioch did they brake the deal, and even then most of them simply returned home rather than try to take any land.
Besides bohemond there was no evidence that earthly desires were the motive. And if it was then they did a terrible job at it.
@Jonathan Williams
Oh there was most definitely risk of losing their lands.
You leave your lands (which were surrounded by rival rulers) and have a subordinate run things while gone and hope he doesn't steal your lands.
This actually happened to Richard the lionheart, his younger brother tried to steal his kingdom while he was gone. This sort of thing happens all the time when medieval rulers leave their kingdom. And they weren't stupid, they knew the risk.
The Byzantines had it coming, read about the Massacre of the Latins.
The fall of Constantinople genuinely saddens me whenever I think of it. The fall of the last remnants of Rome, of the shield of Christendom, is one of history's greatest tragedies.
"Don't be sad because it was over, smile because it was made to remember them"
Constantinople actually fell in 1204... Sad truth...
Look it up
We had so many chances to take it back as well.. the russians were so close in taking Constantinople back in 1853 (Crimean war), but Russia was backstabbed by the english and the french who decided to assist the ottomanns against Russia.. but I know we will have it back some day
@@rantieris Sim, por caus dos nossos pecados!
@@inhocsignovinces7713 western christians are traitors to the orthodox church
As a Roman Catholic, I am deeply pained to see what is happening to the Hagia Sophia in the former lands of Constantinople. This is a loss not just for the Orthodox, but for all of Christendom
Well ur to blame for that boy!
Hello brother, ım from Turkey. Greetings
But thank to the catholic crusader,the Byzantines were so weakened.
@@Ahmetsenguul u talking to me?
@@Nicola.M7 No
Our dear Byzantine brothers, Greeks! We'll always stand with you in defence of our Holy Church and our mutual culture. Brotherly greetings from Orthodox Serbia!
Thank you brother.
Thanks man
Be Holly till end of time
God be with you orthodox brother
Thank you bro. Defense against what tho?
Syrian Orthodox here. We may be overlooked but we exist and most of us have left our lands. We were commanded to turn our right cheeks but the question is for how long? Greetings from Damascus to all my brothers and sisters in Christ.
Now where do u live
Me also syriac christian (antiochean syrian orthodox) from India
Constantinople fell …. 1000 years of Greco-Roman empire collapsed… if someone knows Greek the lyrics are very sad and emotional . May lord forgive us all for our sins ..
I see the fall of Constantinople as a lesson about life. Take nothing for granted in the world. Everything, even the things that seem mighty can be lost. Constantinople had been sieged 10 times before 1453 and had stood through the latter 9 of them. Even after the sack of 1204 the Empire rose again and the city survived. Perhaps that is why no one sent aid in great abundance or tried to relieve the besieged city. After a thousand years I am sure everyone thought Constanines city would always be there. And then it wasn't. And even if, as is the dream of many Christians, the city was taken back for Christendom again, it wouldn't be the same city that fell in 1453. That city is gone. What stands now is the fully Turkish Islamic Istanbul. Which hardly has any reminders that it was once the seat of a great Christian empire. So cherish all that God gives us in this life. For everything if finite. Like Solomon's temple, Constantines city, and Eden, some things are gone from this world forever.
Constantinople should have fallen way before. Only sheer luck and few great emperors (such as Basil II) saved them before 1453.
God sent a sign to the monk who was praying for Constantinople to be saved. The sign was a hand holding up five fingers... Meaning that the city will be saved if at least five true Christians still remain in it. The corruption associated with empires affected the great city too.
But after so many centuries of suffering and after the sins of the Turks will fill the cup, Constantinople will be returned to Orthodox Christians again and we will hear this Greek chant in the Hagia Sophia
Well, maybe not this particular chant, but other Orthodox chants, especially in Greek
@@alejandrop.s.3942 history is filled with instances where luck and last minute miracles save the day and the 'world'. Take Vienna 1683 for example, had it not been for Sobieski's charge the West of Europe would have been pushed to extinction. Same goes with Istanbul, the Theodosian Walls could not save it
@@alexb9969 I agree with you, but I think the siege of Vienna was the swansong of the Ottoman Empire as a super power. I doubt Western Europe would have fallen even if Vienna had been conquered.
For those who understand Greek, the lyrics are heartbreaking.
Indeed they are. But, as God has told a monk from mt.Athos: Turkey will be Greek again and Islam will perish once and for all.
Darius Paleologos yes time that
@@szofiankomnenosz1464 its saint paisios right
I dont understand greek and it already sounds sad
@@yonathanzefanya187 And others
This magnificent chant makes me weep. There is no greater or higher culture than the christian one. We live in an era where most europeans do not care anymore about their culture or believe in it, yet it was and is the greatest the earth has ever seen. Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me".
The christian culture is not European. It was born in Judea(Southern Kingdom in Israel), and meant for the world according to scriptures. East Europeans worshipped many Gods (that is part of their ancient culture), and we're not the person to get the Belief in Christ. Among the first were Egypt, Ethiopia (dark peoples in Africa), Assuria (syria), ....
In western Europe, the city of Rome was the first though they also tortured the Fidel's of Christ extremely.
@@rb.5940true. But for many years, Europe was thoroughly Christian, and so much art, architecture, politics - everything - reflected the Holy Spirit. Then came abuses, corruption, decay. Satan is having his way now, because those who turn from the Truth will reap destruction. C‘est la vie. So ist es. Such is life.
Proud to be Greek, proud to be Orthodox. My Emperor never surrendered, he fell for the country, for the people, for the God.
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You are not greek brother. Modern Greeks are mostly hellenized Albanians Slavs, Georgians and Native Anatolians
@@enjoymfs9715 good one, have you more jokes like that?
@@Orthodox1821 just take a DNA test , you will see
@@enjoymfs9715 we are eastern Romans. Especially we anatolian greeks. Modern concept of identities is not of our concern
@@enjoymfs9715 on that basis, not a single person on earth is what they once were.
Another beautiful masterpiece of a chant
Sounds a lot better than the Arab wailing.
@@dutertefan well aren't you naive now
@@dutertefan yes brother I'm crying right now. Pray for Constantinople
@@yaboiiiogre1332 you are wrong.
@@yaboiiiogre1332 Same can be done with Bible.
Christians all over the world, greetings!Together and with our God we are power! ☦️🇺🇦✝️
Random fact. The Russians were on the verge of retaking the city twice in the 19th century but were stopped both times by British and French intervention to assist the Ottomans. So much for muh Christian struggle eh?
imperatorofman When was this ? Sources ? Interested in history .
@@sun4502 The archbishop of Paris said this about the Crimean War:
The war which France is starting with Russia is not a political war, but a holy war; it is not a war of state against state, a people against a people, but only a religious war…The real reason for this war is the need to push back the Photian heresy, to bludgeon it and to trample it down; such is the open aim of this crusade; such was the aim of all the crusades, although the participants in them did not recognise it.
They would have taken it for themselves.
@@dylanarslanian9309 the stupidest thing is that after 58 years, Britain will fight the Ottoman empire and try to capture Constantinople (Gallipoli campaign) together with Russia
@@serafim_gavrilov Has Britain ever stayed on the same side of any particular issue for more than one generation?
As a Protestant who's an Eastern Roman fanboy, this almost brings me to tears. Almost, because I've already shed my tears rewatching the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
By God in Heaven, how Constantine and all the Great Eastern Emperors wouldve wept...
Brother, Rome lives on in the Orthodox Church, everything that was truly Good
Today, 10th July 2020, the announcement was made of Holy Sophia turning back into mosque.
What was built as cathedral, and turned as a mosque for centuries, deserves to be a museum, to be given to humanity, as Atatürk said.
Shameful...
Perhaps, as it has gone from a church to a mosque to a museum and back to a mosque, it may go back to a church one day...
Agreed. Both sides could celebrate their faith's therenwhen it was a museum. The news of it being turned into a mosque again saddens me :(
Dude erdogan left the Turkish people ignorant and made the Turkish people enemies of Ataturk I am from Turkey there is only religious exploitation here
@@fire5736 cool story bro :d
There are also hundreds of folk songs (laments) from every corner of Greece and beyond, for the "Fall of the City of Cities" as being called.
From my place, Halkidiki, Northern Greece, there is one called "Simenei i Thios". Simainei i Thios, simainei i gis, simainoun ta epourania...
In free translation:
"God is signing, the earth and celestial too,
Agia Sophia the great monastery is ringing (the bells)
with 400 semantra (wooden) and 62 (metal bells).
In every bell a priest, beside every priest a deacon.
The King is chanting to the left, Patriarch to the right,
and so loud was the psalm that the columns of the temple were wobbling.
While they were ready for the Cherubic hymn and the King's exit,
a loud voice came from the sky, from an archangel's mouth:
-Stop the Cherubic hymn and lower the hexapterygs,
you priests take the holy relics, and candles go off!
Because it's God's will for the City to be turkified.
Send letter to Francia (West), to send 3 ships,
the first to take the Holy Cross, the second the Holy Bible,
the best of the three our Holy Altar,
in order not to be dishonored.
The Virgin Mary was disturbed and from the holy icons tears were running.
- Please Virgin Mary (Kyra Despoina), stay silent and stop crying,
once upon a time there will be ours again..."
Well, these are the lyrics, which are quite panhellenic in different variations, from Pontus, Asia Minor, Cyprus, Greece, even from Magna Grecia in Italy and some from the Balkans.
I have re-read Steven Runciman’s Fall of Constantinople 1453 several times.
Each time, I hope it will end differently and it never does.
The loss is sickening and leaves its scars to this day.
I admit, I am ignorant of the Fall of Constantinople and its impact on both Christendom and history in general. But after reading this comment, I knew I had to buy this book and educate myself. So I immediately hopped on Amazon and purchased a copy.
David Bertrand
Well done, you won’t regret it.
Good on you for intellectual integrity.
Cheers.
I plan on reading the book too. This is a tragic chapter in history that I think all Western people need to read.
Dudes for real?? Damn imagine if u where Greeks, the feelings of loss..
@@hattorihanzo9896 we Greeks celebrate our successful revolution against Turks but at the same time mourne for all the centuries of bloodbath
I am a Muslim and I feel heartbreaking to hear this. I cannot imagine the feeling of Emperor Constantine, the people of the city and the Orthodox world when the city was falling into the hands of the Ottoman Islamic Sultanate. I respected the courage of an emperor who did not flee and chose to fight to the end.
Respect but need to us Şükr🇹🇷
We , as Catholics , are equally guilty of the fall of Constantinople than Ottoman were . Ultimately this City was part of the Roman Empire for a Millennia ( longer than Rome itself ) , but what Man create always crumble over time .
@@snowhuskybaalkaii8621 you catholics had destroyed the city in 1204.
Well youre arab, of course you feel sad about the conquer
@@akpgitsinartik
This is what i said . Your point is ?
With heavy heart and glorious hopes. Glory for Contantinople. Savior of Europe !
Legend has it that when the turks entered the Haghia Sophia the HOLY Liturgy was taking place and the priests who where performing it Vanished before it ended at the Eucharist never to be found by the Turks. They disappeared with the Chalice and the other religious relics on the altar and when the day comes when the City is back on Orthodox Hands they will return to finish the Sermon to Honor God once again!
His name is not constantinople his name is İstanbul Allahu Ekber
This sound will never stop and will be reread in Aya Sofya one day
@LetsGoSpain !!! Radioactive dust, in point of fact. Let Greece and Bulgaria arm with nuclear weapons to cleanse Asia Minor of the Islamic pestilence!
@LetsGoSpain !!! no, Atheism will be the end. Atheism the problem facing your religion, wake up buddy. There will never be another great Christian Empire or Kingdom. Atheism is taking over. Even if Istanbul is captured again, them ortho's will convert to Atheism. Wake up if you really care. Islam is on your side against Atheism. Atheism wants us all annihilated.
@@gandalfthegrey2592 You are correct, atheism is a greater threat. And no amount of violence will ever stop it, only through love and peace can people return to God.
@mahmut mahmutoglu Medieval my *ss, Christianity began 2000 years ago. Definitely not medieval, peak of Antiquity in the years of Tiberius and Augustus. Islam isn't a semetic myth, adding myth in front of the world religion doesn't mean sh*t. Atheists think they are too smart for religion. What arrogance. And no, the best thing to happen for the turks was their conversion to Islam. Which helped transform you into one of the most powerful and advanced civilizations in history, the same thing happened with the Arabs. But guess what, what the west has done is not progress. In a world where the 20ish year old Alexander could conquer the known world, our 18 years old worry about failing their exams. Goddamn, so much progress! Scientific and more equal rights is the only thing that was progress.
Constantinople might have fallen, but it will never fall in our hearts.
What does Constantinople mean to you?
Ave 🇪🇸❤️🇬🇷
Ottoman Empire 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🤗😗
@@Santino369 it means the true capital of Greece 🇬🇷, the capital of the Rhomaioi, the Center of our Church. It means all of Greece’s ambitions and of Greek peoples everywhere from Magna Graecia where the community of Italian Greeks, Grikos, I am descended from still lives to the farthest reaches of Anatolia. It means reclaiming what is ours while not harming those who have harmed us. It’s the symbol of our hopes and dreams as a people, united under a new Greek Imperial family and committed to our faith. It’s the symbol of centuries of ambitions of freeing ourselves from Ottoman rule and reclaiming the birthright. It’s both necessary and desirable.
@@carterwinslow6744 Well Carter its beautiful what you said. It shows that it's coming from your heart and I understand that. We all feel attached to our identities and our past glorious days. But you know, I think that this somehow hinders us as people and keeps us stuck somewhere in the past. I'm not Greek neither Chrisrian, but the lament made me so emotional and felt sad as if I'm from Constantinople. No doubt it was a great city and great Empire, but that's history. Nations rise and fall. It doesnt mean that we have to keep thinking that someone stabbed us in the back and we have to revenge. I mean what made Constantinople great was it's people in that time, but also it's people somehow became weaker and lost it. It's not that Greeks now or Italians are weak and it's their fault, because they are different people. I mean you weren't living in that time. It's the history of ur ancestors but you live now and you should make your country good. Not necessarily to be the same as Constantinople because nothing can be identical to something else. And the faith you talk about, well I think it's in your heart whether you are living in Greec or China or even another planet. It's yours. That's why I think what matters is the human where ever he/she lives. Human dignity should be the number one priority and based on how much such dignity respected, countries greatness should be measured.
Today, in 2020, we lost Hagia Sophia again. It’s looks like we just lost Constantinople. Kyrie Eleison.
Christe Eleison
We didn't even ask if it became a cathedral again, only that it remain a museum, to celebrate both religions. They denied us and conquered the Hagia Sophia again.:(
So sad
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison ✝️
@drummer Jesus was God in the flesh. Get it right.
My brothers and sisters in Christ. I see it now. One day East and West shall reunite and we will hold the beautiful city of Constantinople yet again. We've had our nose bleeding from the Ottoman punch for quite some time but soon we shall rise and once again have Holy Mass in the Hagia Sophia yet again. Pray and persevere. My God bless you
I will wait you
Ya cidden bu haçlı zihniyeti yenilgiye doymuyor işleri hep alavere dalavere. Tarih yazılmış ve yenilmiş bir ordunuz var artık Türk ile savaşılmayacağını anlamış olmanızı isterdim ama yok illaki yine de alacağız diyorsunuz. Gelin tatil yapın gezin görün eğlenin ama dalagalanan Türk Bayrağını indirmeyi düşünmeyin çünkü ölürsünüz 🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇷🇦🇿🇹🇷
Greetings to homeland Greece from Anatolian greeks from pontus rum empire. We are still here. We'll never forget our own ancestors's legacy. ✝️✝️
Atalarının mirasını yedim 😋😋😋
@@furkanerdem550 afied
@@zafercelik5495 abi zafer diye rum mu olur
@@furkanerdem550 anne tarafım rum
@@zafercelik5495 Kime oy veriyorlar
Ὁ θεός, ἤλθοσαν ἔθνη, ἤλθοσαν, ἤλθοσαν ἔθνη
εἰς τὴν κληρονομί… εἰς τὴν κληρονομίαν σου,
ἐμίαναν τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου,
ἐμίανα... χα... χα... χαν
τὸν ναὸν τὸν ἅγιόν σου, ἐμίαναν, Κύριε,
ἔθεντο τὰ θνησιμαῖ... χαῖ...α τῶν δούλων σου
βρώ... βρώματα τοῖς πετεινοῖς τοῦ οὐρανοῦ,
τὰς σάρκας τῶν ὁσίων σου τοῖς θηρίοις τῆς γῆς·
ἐξέχεαν, ἐξέχεαν, ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν, κύριε,
ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν ὡς ὕδωρ κύκλῳ Ιερουσαλημ,
καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ θάπτων.
ἐγενήθημεν, ἐγενήθημεν ὄνειδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν,
μυκτηρισμὸς καὶ χλευασμὸς τοῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν.
ἕως πότε, κύριε - πάλιν - ἕως πότε, κύριε,
ὀργισθήσῃ εἰς τέλος,
ἐκκαυθήσεται ὡς πῦρ ὁ ζῆλός σου;
ἕως πότε, κύριε
ἔκχεον τὴν ὀργήν σου,
ἔκχεον, ἔκχεον τὴν ὀργήν σου
ἐπὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ γινώσκοντά σε
σε καὶ ἐπὶ βασιλείας, αἳ τὸ ὄνομά σου οὐκ ἐπεκαλέσαντο...
μὴ μνησθῇς ἡμῶν ἀνομιῶν ἀρχαίων·
ἀλλὰ βοήθησον ἡμῖν ταχὺ
καὶ ἐλέησόν ἡμᾶς.
O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild. They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us. How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire? Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; may your mercy come quickly to meet us, and have mercy of us.
Thank you for this is 👍
Thank you!
Who is crying for our hagia Sophia as me 😭😭😭😭
Kyrie eleison
Christle eleison
☦️=❤️
ROMARIC TEKEM You can rest assured that we Catholics, as well as the whole of Christendom is also outraged at this.
Same , Protestant here, I hope Hagia Sophia will return to our hands someday✝️☦🤞😔Kyrie Eleison
As a Latter-day Saint (popularly known as mormon) I'm really sad for this news. As a member of the Christian faith, I do support Hagia Sophia for our Orthodox brothers, the original builders of such wonderful house of God
As a catholic from Malaysia..That news bring tears to me💔💔😭😭... Stay strong brother and sister in christ
I was heartbroken 😭💔 since I heard about what happened ..... I really hope that God will prevent this from happening before 24'th of July anyway ..... Christian orthodox from Egypt ♥️✝️
The Turks boast that the city has been in Muslim hands for over 500 years now, yet how soon they forget Andalusia was Muslim for over 700 years before Christian rule was restored.
And now Spain might once again become Muslim just by sheer numbers of Arabs settling there.
@@TamarMebonia The Turks Conquered Anatolia in 1071 though. They assimilated all the native Anatolian populations. Now , all natives have been Turkified and are called ''Turkish''. But how many Turkish with Mongoloid/Turkic characteristics have you seen? The Turks established themselves on this land that way. Do you really believe we can wake up all these people(like 75%+ of the Turkish) who have been identifying as Turks for 1000 years and tell them that they aren't actually Turks in their blood but Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Hittites, Circassians...? It can never happen. Let's be realistic. The Turkish ethnogenesis happened and can't be reversed.
Καλλίμαχος who live in republic of Turkey is % 100 Turk
@@kullancad643 That's why Turks from Western turkey get 60%-80% Greek in their DNA tests? Real Turks ,like the ones in central Asia are Mongoloid people. Very few people in Turkey have mongoloid characteristics like slit eyes.
@@kullancad643 real woke guy here
Touching to see that not everyone has moved on and still see the city has being under occupation, there is no statute of limitations on such great historical injustices.
And that's why dummies all over the world fight wars and cause unbearable suffering for nothing but their idiots ideas.
@@BringDHouseDown The modern Turkish state is not "Islamic rule" by a long shot, and this is coming from someone who despises its policies towards ethnic minorities. Turkey has gone further than almost any other country in promoting secularism. And saying that Turks and Arabs are of the same "ilk" is beyond stupid.
@@ashwins.9146 Can you say that today?
@@ashwins.9146 Unfortunately, Turkey is coming backwards in that regard.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 That's true, but Erdogan and the AKP's election-oriented tomfoolery don't change the fundamental character of the Turkish state. An authoritarian state in many regards for sure, but a highly secular one as well.
Even if I’m not an orthodox, witnessing Hagia Sophia turning into a mosque saddens me...
This monument and the city belong to the Greek Orthodox.
@Ali Kılıç in your dreams maybe
It’s not just for Greek Orthodox, it’s for all orthodoxy in the world
@@alexjoy9693 it belongs to all orthodox of course but culturally belongs to greeks
@Ali Kılıç Then its not Rome
@Ali Kılıç Byzantium is the ancient name of the city before it was named Constantinople and as you said, the ottoman ruler declared himself Ceasar of Rome, that doesn't mean he was Roman. The ottoman empire was never Roman in any way except the capital being Constantinople or İstanbul.
Our dear Byzantine brothers, Greeks! We'll always stand with you in defence of our Holy Church. Brotherly greetings from Malankara Orthodox !
The fall of Constantinople genuinely saddens me!
I hope you guys come back into Communion, I want to hear Liturgy in Sanskrit
*"As years go by, as ages leave us dead*
*What once was ours, shall be once again"*
Here to hoping Greeks retake Constantinople and the Anatolian Coast
Greetings from Montenegro.
Retaking ALL of former Byzans
Thank you brother for the translation
The Greece of today is no longer that of heroic ages past...😞
They are too weak.. I fear that could never happen..
@@jchea1764 what else do you know about us? Please, inform me more about my ethnicity.
@@Ezio2713
Gladly,
From Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Erasthothenes, Euclid, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Homer, Hippocrates, Aristarchus, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Pericles, Leonidas, Herodotus, Anaximander and many many more that I trust you, as a Greek would know more than I do...
No other civilization has come close to producing the number of great individuals that the Greeks have..
Your ancestors were the pioneers of so many fields, and your policies of government, discoveries and mathematical theorems stand strong to this very day... Your people were the beacon of civilization of that age and time.
O dear Greek, and look at how far you've fallen..
When people think of Greece and Greeks today, they think of a country heavily in debt, maybe even broke, and depending on the EU for bailouts.. it's a joke...
It's just so damn sad...😞😔
Even to this day, when people look back to those Greeks, they look at them with admiration and pride..
At least I do..
O dear Greek..
May God have mercy on us. Stay strong my Orthodox brothers and sisters,we shall take whats ours once again!
@@xunqianbaidu6917 Russia is Orthodox and are extremely religious. Same with Greece. In the future if they team up against Turkey possibly Konstantinopel will be Orthodox again.
Russia wants Constantinople
Carve into your hearts, what was lost shall be regained!
They could destroy that building but will never be able to destroy THE FAITH ☦️
Christ The King of all...
Greeting from INDONESIA 🇮🇩🇮🇩
I thought Indonesia was Muslim.
@Hwak Is the Catholic religion growing in Indonesia?
Not catholic, exept papouasia and chinese catholic. We are protestant.
Salam dari orang ambon yang tingal di prancis.
Amen bro🙏
Hi juga salam Kristen poso
People in the comments here talking about 1453, when 1204 really was what killed the Roman Empire. The Ottomans just carried out the inevitable.
@Omega Centauri Not really. Constantinople had never been taken before, even with Arab Invasions of 150'000 soldiers. The Byzantine Empire in 1204 was a corrupt and dysfunctional.
Infighting as well. Had there been only two Byzantines, and the Empire a single mound of dirt-- the one would have blinded the other so as to take away his claim to it.
@Omega Centauri Pretty funny considering the odds they faced in 1453 was what? 7000 against 200000? the turks outnumbered them 28 to 1 and still suffered stupidly high casualties.
@@raziel6304 circa 100.000 vs 37.000 you imbecile
dbo514 the last true leader of the Byzantine empire was Justinian who even tried to western Rome
They can call Hagia Sophia whatever they want, but the truth remains that it was, is, and always will be an Orthodox Church.☦☦☦
I am sorry brother for the ill news. Keep the faith! From a Catholic.
The Turth is you oWe to Turks they saved that place..After Latins destroyed it halfly..and used as wharehouse..All the sultans even modern Turkey spent toons of gold to keep that ancient building alive..Can you show anything similar to Agia sophia still alive ?? SO
According to your logic ! Spain was is and will always be Muslim )
Hundreds of our mosques were turned to churches. The problem that we also believe in Jesus .. and waiting in his return. Complicated world
@@youssefserfati198 no because Spain was Christian before it was muslim...Constantinople wasnt...also you people dont believe in the trinity therefore you dont truly believe in Jesus
It is a mosque now :)
George Sprantzes - The Fall of the Byzantine Empire 1453 primary source from the war.
Constantine Palaologus XI speaks before his officers and allies before the final siege of Constantinople by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed Bey
Most noble leader, illustrious tribunes, generals, most courageous fellow soldiers and all loyal honest citizens! You know well that the hour has come: the enemy of our faith wishes to oppress us even more closely by sea and land with all his engines and skill to attack us with the entire strength of this siege force, as a snake about to spew its venom; he is in a hurry to devour us, like a savage lion. For this reason I am imploring you to fight like men with brave souls, as you have done from the beginning up to this day, against the enemy of our faith. I hand over to you my glorious, famous, respected, noble city, the shining Queen of cities, our homeland. You know well, my brothers, that we have four obligations in common, which force us to prefer death over survival: first our faith and piety; second our homeland; third, the emperor anointed by the Lord and fourth; our relatives and friends.
“Well, my brothers, if we must fight for one of these obligations, we will be even more liable under the command strength of all four; as you can clearly understand. If God grants victory to the impious because of my own sins, we will endanger our lives for our holy faith, which Christ gave us with his own blood. This is most important of all. Even if one gains the entire world but loses his soul in the process, what will it benefit! Second, we will be deprived of such famous homeland and of our liberty. Third, our empire, renowned in the past but presently humbled, low and exhausted, will be ruled by a tyrant and an impious man. Fourth, we will be separated from our dearest children, wives and relatives.
“This wretch of a Sultan has besieged our city up to now for fifty seven days with all his engines and strength; he has relaxed the blockade neither day nor night, but, by the grace of Christ, our Lord, who sees all things, the enemy has often been repelled, up to now, from our walls with shame and dishonor. Yet now too, my brothers, feel no cowardice, even if small parts of our fortifications have collapsed from the explosions and engine missiles, as you can see, we made all possible, necessary repairs. We are placing all hope in the irresistible glory of God. Some have faith in armament, others in cavalry, might and numbers but we believe in the name of our Lord, our God and Savior, and second, in our arms and strength granted to us by divine power.
“I know the countless hordes of the impious will advance against us, according to their custom, violently, confidently and with great courage and force in order to overwhelm and wear out our few defenders with hardship. They attempt to frighten us with loud yells and innumerable battle cries. But you are all familiar with their chattering and I need say no more about it. For a long time they will continue so and will also release over us countless rocks, all sorts of arrows and missiles, like the sand of the sea. But I hope that such things will not harm us; I see, greatly rejoice, and nourish with hopes in my mind that even if we are few, you are all experienced and seasoned warriors- courageous, brave, and well prepared. Protect your heads with shields in combat and battle. Keep your right hand, armed with the sword, extended in front of you at all times. Your helmets, breastplates and suits of armor are fully sufficient together with your other weapons and will prove very effective in battle. Our enemies have no and use no such weapons. You are protected inside the walls, while they will advance without cover and with toil.
“For these reasons, my fellow soldiers, prepare yourselves, be firm, and remain valiant, for the pity of God, Take your example from the few elephants of the Carthaginians and how they dispersed the numerous cavalry of the Romans with their noise and appearance. If one dumb beast put another to flight, we, the masters of horses and animals, can surely even do better against our advancing enemies, since they are dumb animals, worse even than pigs. Present your shield, swords, arrows, and spears to them, imagining that you are a hunting party after wild boars, so that the impious may learn that they are dealing not with dumb animals but with their lords and masters, the descendants of the Greeks and the Romans.
“You are well aware that this irreligious Sultan, the enemy of our holy faith, violated for no good reason the peace treaty we had with him and disregarded his numerous oaths without a second thought. Suddenly, he appeared and built his castle in the straights of Asomatosso he might be able to inflict daily harm on us. Then he put our farms, gardens, parks, and houses to the torch, while he killed and enslaved as many of our Christian brothers as he found; he broke the treaty of friendship. He befriended the inhabitants of Galata, the wretches rejoice over this, as they are unaware of the parable of the Farmer’s son who was roasting snails and said, “Oh stupid creature,” etc. Well my brothers, since he started the siege and the blockade, every day he opens his fathomless mouth and is seeking an opportunity to devour us and this city, which thrice-blessed Constantine the Great founded and dedicated to the all holy most chaste Mother of God, our lad, Mar the eternal virgin. She became the Queen of Cities, the shield and aid of our homeland, the shelter of Christians, the hope and joy of all wishes to destroy this city, which was once proud and blooming like a rose of the field.
“I can tell you that this city mastered the entire universe; She placed beneath her feet Pontus, Armenia, paphlagonia, The Amazonian lands, Cappadocia, Galatia, Media, Georgian Colchis, Bosphoros, Albania, Syria, Cilicia, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Arabia, Judea, Bactria, Scythia, Macedonia, Thessaly, Hellas, Boeotia, Locris, Aetolia, Arcarnania, Achaea, the Peloponnese, Epirus, Illyria, Lykhnites, the Adriatic, Italy, Tuscany, the Celts, and Galatian Celts, Spain up to Cadiz, Libya, Mauritania, Ethiopia, Beledes, Scude, Numidia, Africa and Egypt.
Now he wants to enslave her and throw the yoke upon the Mistress of Citie, our holy churches, where the Holy Trinity was worshipped, where the Holy Ghost was glorified in hymns, where angels were heard praising in chant the deity of and the incarnation of God’s word, he wants to turn into shrines of his blasphemy, shrines of the mad and false Prophet, Mohammed, as well as into stables for his horses and camels.
“Consider then, my brother and comrades in arms, how the commemoration of our death, our memory, fame and freedom can be rendered eternal.”
Quite the speech. He must have known that they were doomed.
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 Probably, but nevertheless he stood and fought as would any noble and just emperor should have done.
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 you have to read also the answer of Konstantinos Palaeologos the 11th East Roman Emperor to The Sultan
Is another ,ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ ,of the 300 hundred Spartans, 1900 years back.
COME AN GET IT ,WE HAVE DECIDEDTO DEFEND IT.................
Thank you for posting this. I really do admire him and he was a definitely a hero for sure. Such a horrible tragedy no thanks to the failings and cowardice of Western Christianity and the Pope. I hope I'll be able to see the Hagia Sophia and some of the ancient remnants of Constantinople before Erdogan the Nazi-Islamofascist destroys them.
@@occles Erdogan is also buddy-buddy with President Putin, who would *not* take kindly to the destruction of Hagia Sophia. So no, that is not going to happen.
Dear Greek brothers and sisters, we woe with you. The fall of Holy Constantinople was a tragedy for all the Christendom!
SİZİ YENDİK İSLAM KAZANDİ ,AYASOFYA CAMİ OLDU 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼💪💪💪💪
@@tayfunt9537 kto pytał
@@tayfunt9537 And instead we took Jerusalem 😉🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
@@Valencetheshireman927 hristiyanların eline geçmedi orası yahudi toprakları
my soul weeps for hagia sophia. When i visited hagia sophia one year ago, it made me so sad because she looked like an old and very sad angel she suffered a lot but was still a standing warrior. Now disrespect is made for her past.
Turkish government has now officially declared Hagia Sophia a mosque. They'll put curtains on the Christian iconography. The sacrilege pains me beyond measure.
but only during prayer, after prayer the christian relics will be shown to the tourists again
If they touch the holy icons their hands will suffer along with their generation of infediels.!
Mustafa Kemal Atatatürk ,made Hagia Sophia a museum.
erdoğan turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque
Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Atatürk,modern secular.
erdogan,radical islamist.
Im Turk and atheist. i wish hagia sophia remained museum
Agia sophia always was mosque last 500 year dude no need to make poltical wars about it..you know it.
@@Ouzconqueror Yet it was first built as a cathedral and was one for a 1000 years...and not just any cathedral but the center of eastern orthodoxy.
The fall of Byzantium and konstantinoupoli greatly saddens me. Glory to the fallen Christian’s including Constantine XI the palaiologos for sacrificing their lives and freedom for orthodoxy passion and love for the nation
Performanța corului este sublimă!Despre muzica bizantină este greu să găsești cuvinte care să poată exprima o atât de mare frumusețe care te cuprinde!
God is and always will be with us ❤️☦️
Its very painful to see the Theodosian Walls crumble while i'm listening :'(
Puhahahahahh
@@batuhan58861 1683
@@batuhan58861 didn’t you lose 1683 lol
Constantinople will rise from the ashes. Once again, one must have faith. Our faith is indistructable Amen!
Agia Sophia is older than Islam itself!
Yet they call the house of the lord...our great Church.....the center of all Christian Orthodoxy......the heart of our great City of Constantinople......they call it theirs.
Wake up our Marble King!
Again with years and time.....again it will be ours!
It is also older than Christianity, it was a pagan temple.
@@michaellindemann7522 no, emperor Justinian built it in the 6th century.
yea wake up, cry more maybe it can hear u🤣🤣
@@ercanylmaz967 Sure!! It doesnt matter as far as you consider someone who didn't do any miracles and said the Sun sets ina muddy pool!!
Still today, I’ve never met an orthodox christian that doesn’t lament the fall and no young one that doesn’t want to reconquer it
I do not support what is done to Hagia Sophia, but Istanbul is always Turkish
@@resulcan4734 no offence but how, the Turks are deeply confused people, recognising their roots in the Turkic ethnic group and assuming brotherhood in the east - all while being desperate to be seen as worthy by Europeans. Turks are seen almost universally as unworthy and unwelcome would be conquerors.
To try and say Istanbul is always Turkish is a joke. The name itself is perhaps a century old at best, and the ottoman sultans were eager to champion themselves the successors of Rum
@@resulcan4734 no it is not and you know that ...you afraid ...
@@simonnomis5302 afraid ? dgfgsgagadg
Πάλι με χρόνια με καιρούς, πάλι δικιά μας θα είναι! Ιησούς Χριστός Νικά!
May the Divine Liturgy be held again at the magnificent Church of the Holy Wisdom of God, Hagia Sophia (Αγία Σοφία).
Glory be to You, Christ our God, glory be to You (Δόξα Σοι, Χριστέ ο Θεός ημών, δόξα Σοι)!
not going to happen.. Hagia Sophia is a Unesco museum and is no longer a practicing house of worship, be it mosque or church... and better for it.. the splendour of the building can be studied and appreciated by all..
It’s better to have it used for what it’s built for
It was finished by a Creten Priest after ww1 I believe.
AYASOFYA CAMİ OLARAK KALACAK GÜÇLÜ OLAN BİZİZ TÜRKLER VE TÜRKİYE🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼💪💪💪
Kutsal Bilgelik kilisesi artık bizim oldu
May Constantinople and the Hagia Sophia return to Christianity. God have mercy on us
NEVERTİME 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
Will not happen but meh Amen Maybe when He returns
The Turkish Govoenment would never allow it. The Hagia Sophia should become as the Sepulcre is. Where the West and the East can come together to worship under the same roof. Constantinople (the rightful name of Istanbul) doesn't need a Museum laid on Holy Ground.
@@secretman9120 The land was and will never be ours, take it, take Rome, take Moscow too take them all ... our Christendom and our Kingdom is not from nor on this earth, you will never understand this
@@wakowako5030 yours never will take istanbul .
One day, Lord, please.
O Lord, hear my prayer; and let my cry come unto Thee.
It has been 500 years, but reading through the comments, it seems like the sadness are still there.
It is time to look to the future with peace among humans. Let's strive for peace in humanity. Each city on Earth is ours and each city is holy. No need a retaking anymore of Constantinople or Jerusalem again.
We are citizens of the world like what the great Greek philosophers from the Stoa school used to say. May peace be with you today.
567 years ago, on 29th of May, darkness prevailed and Constantinople was lost.
Paying my respects to the spirit of humanity's greatest empire.
Well, an Empire which paid tributes for their survival to almost every conqueror (huns, arabs, sassanids, bulgarians, pechenegs...) I would not call them the Greatest, in spite of some formidable emperors such as Basil II.
It was a dissapointing kingdom for me, too far from their pretended roman heritage which only Belisarius could emulate.
@@alejandrop.s.3942 byzantine is weak
@Renan Uysal That's just a name. The Eastern Roman Empire was in fact Greek.
@Renan Uysal I think you're quite confused, mixing up mythology, history, culture...The Aeneid was written by Ovid if I recall correctly, just a fiction work which hasn't been proved to have any real basis.
Yes, they called themselves Romans, and the Ottomans knew them as Rüm if I recall correctly, but it was clearly a Greek nation. For instance, the Emperor was called Basileos instead of Caesar. Russia claimed that Moscow was the third Rome and intended to be the Roman Empire heirs, would you call them Romans? Would you call Romans to every modern nation which is the result of the dismemberment of the Roman Empire? Would you consider Roman to the Germanic emperors who took the title of Holy Roman Emperor?
Everyone has his own way of thinking, and mine is than Eastern Roman Empire wasn't really Roman but a Greek nation, seed of modern Greece.
@Renan Uysal Yes, and the Julii family descended from Venus-Aphrodite...the Aeneid was sheer nationalistic Roman propaganda of its time, which intended to give the Romans a mythic and epic past, and link Augustus with the divinity. Anyway, if you think that the Eastern Roman Empire was purely Roman I won't argue with you, but I don't think so.
cheers christian brothers, i can't get over your great chants
Rome does not fall, it lives on in us all. Rome lives on today through you and I. Rome lives on as an idea, more than a memory.
That art work is beautiful, in a sad way. As beautiful as Constantinople was, as much as we'd all die to go back and just catch a glimpse of those walls, and that beautiful dome of Hagia Sophia rising above the sparkling sea under a switft sunrise... my brothers, the eternal city of God will be yet more beautiful still, lit only by the glory of His presence. Stay the course, Christ is with us ☦✝
571 years ago today since the fall 😭
Beautiful. Thank you for this.
The Hagia Sophia should become a Church as it once was.
Its still holy ground and its been desecrated as a Mosque and as a mere museum
Amen
Except that the whole reason why it became a Mosque what because the sultan saw it as beautiful.
@@matcauthon9669 it was beautiful because it was a Christian house of God
It was turned into a mosque as a monument to their victory, as is their way, Gambler.
It became a mosque again
Very emotional in its effect. So sad considering the history behind this awe-inspiring piece of music. I was moved to tears whilst listening to this.
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name. They said in their heart, “Let us
completely subdue them.” They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psalm 74:7-8
It's about Ancient Rome stupid. Not about GAYstantinople.
@@charlesleeray8728 Constantinople was the Capital of the Roman Empire.
Christian trying to reconnect with Christ, this Song genuinely made me tear up out of sheer Sadness and Inspiration.
Thinking about the men and women in Ukraine bravely giving their lives to fight against Oppression. Just as the Crusaders of old did to the Turkish invaders.
They Killed the knights, but couldn't kill their Faith in Christ, which is genuinely beautiful and Heartbreaking to me.
I hope to see Jesus one day.
Today an official day of mourning for Hagia Sophia. Blessings from an American Catholic.
My father is from Greece and my mother is from Turkey. Let the wars stay in the past guys. We must get united under the beauty of Aegean Sea. We are stronger together. Thinking about wars we had, just brings more collapses. So forget the past, focus on our future. Try not to do more mistakes that we did in the past. Much respect and love
Anybody that forgets their past curses their future.
This unfortunately never happen my friend
Pray for me brothers and sisters ☦️☦️
Beautifully doleful. Such an unspeakable tragedy. A very rough translation into English for those interested:
O God, the nations have come, the nations have come
upon your inheritance!
They stained,
they stained your holy temple, Lord,
they set the carcasses of your servants upon the ground
as food for the birds of heaven
the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.
They poured out their blood, O Lord,
they poured out their blood as water around Jerusalem,
and there was none to bury them
We have become, we have become a reproach to our neighbors
sarcasm and mockery to those round about us.
How long, O Lord? Again, how long, O Lord,
will you be angry forever,
will the fire of your zeal burn as fire?
How long, O Lord?
Pour out your anger,
pour, pour out your anger
upon the nations that do not know you,
and upon the kingdoms which do not call upon you by name.
Do not remember our lawless deeds from of old,
but help us quickly
and have mercy upon us.
hey i'm turkish and i like this chant. I live in Istanbul and it's a gorgeus place with some awesome Byzantine and Turkish culture. hope you guys come to visit someday
How would you feel about giving the european part of the city to greece, and keeping the asian part?
@@PatrasPhantomI think it would be highly impractical
@@yagzozandibek5196 Then you are thieves still. You pretend like Istanbul is a mix of Byzantine and Ottomans culture, but really it is just Ottoman Turkish with full Islamic law. The Christians in Istanbul have to try to hide their identity as quietly as possible.
@@moisuomi I went to church like yesterday lol
@@PatrasPhantom just a dream 😂
Thank you for sharing this. A true companion through fitting times
My heart is crying in pain and agony for the great Hagia Sophia Cathedral. I pray to God it will be a Church again one day.
It will be soon an orthodox church. The Prophecies will be fulfilled because it is God's will.
@@chad438 indeed day by day more news about ww3 are coming
How can you fulfill the prophecies when y'all have taken your prophet as your God. Woe to y'all, the God is above all. We call him Allah. He's the God of Adam, Nuh, Ibrahim, Moses, Isa and Muhammad (peace be upon them).
@@onegod8265 Jesus isn't a prophet and we see the prophecies being fulfilled with our own eyes today. Jesus is coming back and when he does all knees will bow to him and say he is God.
@@onegod8265 We call him father
I'm not a Roman fanboy. The Byzantine Empire was imperfect, but it's still sad to see what happen to the greatest city of Christendom. One day the Hagia Sophia will be nice again a Christian. God willing.
Saddens me to know there is very little unity left among Christians. Faith is shrinking everyday. I hold a thought for all brothers and sisters in Christ, that we may not abandon him.
my friend, all religions blame each other, if we believe in one, the other says, you will go to hell, how do you know that jesus is the lord?
tell me something so that I will be a Christian
We're all brothers in Christ. Coming from a catholic.
"Don't weep mother Constantinople, you will prosper once again"
- a very wise man
Pray for Constantinople.
Pray for Hagía Sophía.
we did and turned back to mosque
@@Minikkius thats doesn’t help
@@Minikkius religion of terrorism forever
We are praying in there 🤣
It wont help
I'm Catholic and i mourn with my Eastern Brothers and Sisters. ✝️☦️
✝️🛐🙏
God is not real dude
@@thetimetravelingfbi7626 not to you dude.
@@neil03051957 what you mean
@@thetimetravelingfbi7626 for the loss of constantinople to the Turks and losing what was the capital of eastern Catholicism. For 1500 years.
The great people of Trebizond still fended until they too fell. God bless our people and have mercy.
X Z
That is where my grandparents are from. They erase our history every day. Sickening.
... and their descendants, my people the Pontian Greeks, were cast out of their lands as refugees in 1923.
@@Onattttt Turkish arrogance is their biggest enemy. Keep bullying Greece, Syria, Israel, Libya, Egypt and the bill will be soon footed to you.
@@Onattttt no, it was the might of the West that ruined Byzantium. The lion kills, the hyena merely eats the corpse.
@Da Pacem Domine No, the west thwarted all subsequent attempts to liberate the Christians of the East, for example 1853, of which the "archbishop" Sibour said:
"The war which France is starting with Russia is not a political war, but a holy war; it is not a war of state against state, a people against a people, but only a religious war…The real reason for this war is the need to push back the Photian heresy, to bludgeon it and to trample it down; such is the open aim of this crusade; such was the aim of all the crusades, although the participants in them did not recognise it."
Merry christmas to those who celebrate it, from a pontic greek.
They may have desecrated the beautiful Hagia Sophia, but they will never be able to sully the Kingdom of Heaven. Peace unto you all, from an American Protestant. May we all, Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, Assyrian, and etc. reunite under the singular banner of Jesus Christ our Lord. A house divided against itself cannot stand. One day we will all bow to Him in unison, not as enemies, but in fellowship.
Yesterday my friends they again decided to pollute our Holy Church of Hagia Sophia to turn into a mosque
Let's pray for the mercy of God
They will see their sins in worshipping a false idol a little too late, they knew what their actions would bestow on them so why would they need God’s mercy if they have abandoned his path?
Love this chant and the Turks had a very hard time trying to take down the walls. The empire was heavily guarded by different archery infantry such as men from Thessalonica, Athens, Byzantine Guards, and Trebizond archers but include the men who used Greek fire weapons to destroy siege towers. Eastern Roman Empire is civilization. Respect from Mexico. When I look the Constantinople, it reminds the fall of Tenochtitlán, the most ancient city of the gods we used to worshipped them.
And now they spit in our faces again.
No more brother wars. Orthodox and Catholics must unite as one.
Amen brother!
And gang up on the protestants? xD
Never
Well remember the choice turban or tiara?
Dumb move.
All orthodox Christians with patriarchs (Ukraine as an example) cannot unite because of....reasons?? Protestants are worse.
Remember the time when the ottomans and other rulers appointed Orthodox patriarchs.
Yet Catholics should remove the ruler of the Church?
@taso denpei why do you not believe in apostolic succession????
I genuinly believe it when i say that the fall of the Byzantine Empire was one of the greatest tragedies in the history of western & middle eastern civilizations . So many things would be completely different if it never happened , our world would be almost unrecognizable today
And now Chora Monastery has been seized and turned into a mosque. How long, O Lord?
God helps those who help themselves
Another year without her.
At this point it doesnt matter whether you are Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant. If you're from the Christian world, Your heart is ripped in pieces for Constantinople and for Hagia Sophia "mosque" news. It hurts all of us. And it will never stop hurting
Viva por siempre Constantinopla. Bizancio es la ortodoxia y la ortodoxia es Bizancio. Gloria al maestro Jesús
God bless you brother from Athens.
This made me cry and this song is enough to make a gigachad cry Rest in peace my beloved Byzantium
I want to become the new Emperor of Rome and I will be called Entouin I Palaiologos
and I’m not Greek I am Mexican and I will convert all of mexico to orthodox Christianity.
My proud kingdom of the 2nd Byzantine Empire.
☦️❤️👑
Hello my friend greetings from a Greek 🙏🏻☦️
Blessed are the ones who perished in the battle and didn’t live to see the aftermath. What happened to the people and the city, especially the holy temples….truly an historical turning point from which we (Christians) never recovered.
O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance. Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, and by virtue of Thy Cross, preserve Thy habitation. +++
Gregorian and Byzantine hymn's for life. Deus Vult ✝🇻🇦✝
It is how God should be revered. The songs of the heretic Protestants do not resemble a liturgy to God and are not fit to prayer. They have completely lost their way.
@@real_orestis_georgiou Amen to that Gregorian and Byzantine for life ✝🇻🇦✝
@@tradcat7777 We Orthodox and Catholics are like brothers. I pray that we will unite
@@real_orestis_georgiouAmen! or at least be Brother's and sisters in Christ Jesus 🙏
Orestis Georgiou how dare you call fellow Christians heretic? In wich way are the protestants so ”wrong”? Can you support any thing wrong with protestants with evidence from the Bible?
1919, they were defeated, the city was within our grasp, and we let them keep it, our last chance to liberate the city wasted.
We let them keep it??? lol 🤣
Haha he said "we let them keep it" 🤣
Carving Up The Ottoman Empire?
Nah nigga you couldn't hold shit, we made you swim
There's still time Warren.
You westerners took arms against the islamic blight only when they reached the walls of your precious Vienna... Left us to ROT for more than four centuries. The South is alone, always. Love and respect for our Greek brethren.
Greatings from Romania Orthodoxes Brothers and Sisters!
"So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known" Matthew 10,26
"Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul" Psalm 54,4
If we have faith, like jewish in Egypt, our Constantinopol will be free!!! God bless and help us!
Kyrie eleison!!!
570 years ago...
We shall raise again for our beloved faith !
Ahahahahahahaha 😂
İstanbul=turks