A Message of Hope for Dixie from St. Andrew
Traditional Christian Faith Is the Strength of Our Homeland
It would be plenty easy for Southerners faithful to Dixieland to throw up their hands in despair, as we see so many of our people identifying more with vapid, deracinated American exceptionalism or with some other ideology or idolatry (there’s a difference?) than with the traditions of their own forefathers.
And yet there is room for hope, given the right conditions.
The Christian island of Cyprus offers a wonderful illustration of this. In 1974, she was overrun by vicious Muslim Turks, who have remained as occupiers of the northern part of the island (the parallels with the Yankee invasion and conquest of the South are readily apparent at this point).
We turn to an Orthodox priest named Fr Gerasimos Fokas for more of the story:
“Cyprus greatly venerates the Apostle Andrew. There is no house that does not have an Andrew or Androula. And exactly where the tip of Cyprus is, at the cape, it is written on the map as the Cape of the Apostle Andrew, and this is exactly there Saint Helen built, while traveling to Constantinople from Jerusalem, the Monastery of the Apostle Andrew.
In 1974, with the unfortunate occupation by the Turks, several thousand…