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Interview by Ioannis A. Eliades of the Byzantine Museum of Nicosia

Ioannis A. Eliades : "Many thefts, illegal to steal works of art have given the Church of Cyprus idea to circulate in big cities, notice requiring that all important icons are then harvested for all together in a museum. Alas, this was not possible during the English period (first and second world war, and then the liberation war of Cyprus). With Archbishop Macario, the idea resurfaced in 1960 with the restoration of icons. In 1973 a major restoration workshop is created, ready to accommodate a large number of icons for the formation of the Museum. But the war in 1974, and the Turkish invasion which still has blocked everything. The Museum will be set up until 1982, ie 5 years after the death of the archbishop. Archbishop Macario A Foundation have also found a large library, a gallery of modern art, contemporary center editions. But the great ambition of the museum is to give shelter to the largest possible number of works which seized northern Cyprus. "

- 550 is the number of churches destroyed or abandoned in northern processed for various uses. And an estimated more than 20,000 the number of stolen parts. An enormous wealth that the illegal traffic has spread around the world ...

Ioannis A. Eliades : "Recently we found two great icons of trichome in the hands of a trafficker who held Russian in Switzerland in Zurich. A trial is also underway to repatriate them. "

- Publications, catalogs, exhibitions ... the Museum is engaged in a detailed study of operation and research to find the missing works.

Ioannis A. Eliades : "That's why our Museum had the idea to organize overseas exhibitions. We have already participated in the two editions of the meeting in Rimini in 2008 and 2009. The first year we presented the destruction of churches in Cyprus, showed their condition, asking to do something. While in 2009 we have illustrated the case of works found in Germany ("Hostages in Germany"). Was found in the apartments of a Turkish smuggler in Germany more than 300 works from Cyprus. Placed in receivership for more than 11 years, they are still in Germany. We ask that all works can be together again. "


Ioannis Eliades tells the sad story churches such as St. Barnabas turned into a museum (but icons there are more) and that the monks were forced to leave. It's still a lot of emotion in him when he thinks about the restoration of the frescoes found in Germany after so much effort.

Ioannis A. Eliades : "The Church of Cyprus has paid a sum to find out where were the apartments of the Turkish smuggler. Then there was the sale between September and October 1997, these frescoes have been recovered. When these three paintings you see here have found their place on the wall, we were very moved. We hope that this same process could one day be in the original church "

But in reality the value of these works, which are no less valuable, goes far beyond their capacity Art. By saving and restoring them is the strong Christian identity of the Cypriot people, tied to his land and his faith, which is saved and rebuilt. This same faith who lived all these people forced to leave their homes in the 70's and have managed to save some of the most popular icons, laying in the middle their few personal belongings away in haste, they were more valuable to save. This was the case with this icon ...

Ioannis A. Eliades : "This icon is an example of lost heritage of northern Cyprus. It comes from the Church of Panakia Avracida. The Turks have shot 15 years after the war in 1989. Probably after snatching the frescoes that were inside the church, built in the sixteenth century. They shot down the church and left the cells that surrounded the monastery, this to make it clear that their only aim was to destroy the Church, nothing else. This icon and it is the only witness, the only object that remains of this church. She was rescued by refugees, 74, and was reported by the archdiocese. "


- A approximately fifty churches are located within military camps inaccessible, says Ioannis, and those that were visited are in poor condition. The director of the Byzantine Museum in Nicosia in hopes of security conditions for refugees to return homes and churches to be restored. "Help us to do something," he says forcefully, otherwise there will soon be nothing of this great heritage. " His art is also an urgent appeal to the Pope.

Ioannis A. Eliades : "We ask the pope to do what he can to the cultural heritage of the north, collapsing day after day. Through the President of Cyprus, who died last year, we presented the pope a photo album of occupied churches, their state, so that it can to help, do something. This helps the Pope, Chrysostom It has also sought during his official visit in 2007. This year, we are hopeful that the visit of Benedict XVI makes things grow, we can get permission to restore our churches, because it does not even allow us to restore our churches with our own money. "

(from http://www.h2onews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224445169)

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The Maronites of Cyprus, an endangered treasure

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Maronite Youth in traditional dress.

By Fady NOUN old Maronite peasant attend Saturday's meeting with Pope Benedict XVI the Catholic communities of Cyprus. They are accustomed to the sun and come from villages with singsong names: Aya Marina, Courmagiti, or Assomatos Carpasha. Villages they were expelled in 1974, 35 years ago, when the invasion of the island by the Turkish army.

The Pope himself who requested that they be seated prominently. The ceremony was largely their destiny. Catholics in Cyprus today, they are first. Certainly, there is also an island in the Latino community related to the Custody of the Holy Land and composed mainly of expatriates and foreign workers. But the two minorities in this country largely Orthodox, the most fragile, most threatened, one that really needs to be rescued is the Maronite community, numbering a few thousand people.

Concern brought to the small Maronite community of Cyprus that irresistibly recalls that John Paul II has shown towards Lebanon. One has the impression that through them the Church Universal wants to save an endangered model. Because there is a real risk of losing the Maronites Cyprus. Driven from their villages, families responded differently to the tragedy. In the villages themselves, the time has stopped. Some former remained, wild, but from another age. Some families who fled their land after languishing, their homes and their churches. The younger generation, she has adapted to this misfortune, and began to look elsewhere.

According to MP Antonis Hagi Russos, representing the Parliament of the Maronite community in Cyprus, 80% of marriages of young Maronites are now "mixed" marriages, so that the next generation, these people will be assimilated to the Greek Cypriot population, or contaminated by the ambient secularism, losing all sense of identity Maronite. The member gave the pope a silver plate on which are inlaid with the names of the Maronite villages in Turkish area, in which he expresses the desire of the people "to reconnect with his roots."

Pope thought he could promise the concrete Maronite Cypriots who cheered Saturday. "I know your desires and sufferings, he told them. I hope that with the assistance of the authorities concerned a life better you will be provided soon. "Where does such an assurance, no one can tell.

course, thanks to the energetic action of Archbishop Boutros Gemayel, now replaced his bishop for having reached the age limit, the Maronite community seems to have recovered. On intensive diplomatic efforts led the Turkish authorities to relax the conditions for villagers' access to their land, so that in three of these, Masses are celebrated again on Sunday. Moreover, some old stayed behind were able to exploit their new land and crops Olive is assured. Not for Aya Marina, interrupt the people involved. This village, in fact, is considered a military zone, and all houses are occupied by Turkish troops.

However, this remedy for healthy he was, must continue to become irreversible. This task is now Bishop Yussef Soueif, successor to Bishop Gemayel, omnipresent during welcoming ceremonies of the Pope. "Failing to return to the village, the village need to send young," says Maria Koikkonnou, a Maronite of Cyprus engaged in preparations the visit.

In other words, the younger generation must be won back to the values of the village, that is to say evangelized again. Hence perhaps the crucial importance that the Pope has given during his visit, priests, consecrated persons and Christian educators. In the homily during Mass in the Chapel of the Holy Cross, he urged them to remain faithful to the Cross of Christ, to be models of consistency face of adversity, even if it means, in some cases, give their lives. "Imagine what the world would be without the Cross?" he told them. The question, indeed, has something to shake.

In the courtyard of the white-hot primary school Maronite, after the speeches and exchanged presents, pictures of village life, beautifully danced and sung, have, by their creativity and sincerity, to forget the sun.

St. Maron, the hermit of the fourth century became the father of a human community of some 7 million people spread around the world, built his first church on the site of a pagan temple. That is, it seems, the fate of the Maronite community: gradually replace the light of the Gospel into the darkness of superstition, even when the light is soft and comes in the guise of the most humane, the simplest joys.

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