Religion: Hang Me!

"Let them hang me if they will, but now I shall not retire!" cried Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church at Constantinople. His apartment had just been assaulted by a mob of 300 Greeks and he had been severely manhandled.

The politico-religious controversy is obscure.

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