
June 26 -Eastern Orthodox Church calendar -June 28
All fixedcommemorations below celebrated onJuly 10 byOrthodox Churches on theOld Calendar.[note 1]
For June 27th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the saints listed onJune 14.
"The Catholic Church used all its religious and political influence to destroy this "son of darkness": theJesuits andCapuchins of Constantinople, the French and Austrian ambassadors, the newly constitutedPropaganda Fidei,Pope Urban VIII himself and evenLouis XIII and the powerfulCardinal Richelieu. Almost any means of attacking Loukaris were regarded as legitimate because the motive was "sacred": these included threats and violence, bribing Turkish officials and pro-Catholic clerics in the circle of his successor Cyril Kontares, forging texts incriminating Loukaris, and claiming that the patriarch was inciting foreign powers against the Ottoman Empire. The Austrian Embassy planned Loukaris' assas[s]ination or his abduction to Italy and delivered to theHoly Inquisition. Eventually the Austrian ambassador and Kontares persuaded theSublime Porte to eliminate the patriarch and he was strangled on June 27, 1638."[33]
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