In the crypt of the Monastery of Giromeri was operating in the years of the Ottoman rule until 1913. In accordance with μαÏÏ„Ï…Ïί, which is the “Supplicating”, watched students from villages in the surrounding area. In this context, is estimated as there has been a significant the contribution of the Monastery during the Ottoman occupation. In the difficult years of slavery the Orthodox Church
and the clergy undertook the education and the national awakening of the subjected.
The oral tradition from generation to generation, saved in the historical memory of the truth about the Secret School. This exactly describes the adjutant of Kolokotronis Fotios ΧÏυσανθόπουλος or Fwtakos, when he writes in the first volume of his Memoirs (page 46) that the education during the Turkish occupation they had in their hands the priests, and all those “done in the darkness, and Ï€Ïοφυλακτά by the Turks”! No Greek book was accepted, if it was printed in Athens, greece. It had all come from Istanbul.
The Greek history was forbidden. So they made additional secret traditions, where without a book, without a notebook, the small Epirote learn to know the country’s mother, the national anthem, the poems and their heroes. 
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Tour of the secret school of the Monastery of Giromerion in Thesprotia, that is not a myth, but it was reality
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