about Macedonia

ST. PAUL AND MACEDONIA

St. Paul began spreading Christianity onto all Nations
from Macedonia, through divine intervention.

References of the events in Acts of the Apostles (New Testament):

Chapter 16

8 So passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and
pleaded with him saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”

10 Now after he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go to Macedonia,
concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them.

11 Therefore, sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace,
and the next day came to Neapolis.

12 And from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia…
(where he baptized the first European Christian, Lydia and founded the first
European Church. Philippi is also the place where St. Paul was jailed).

Chapter 17

1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonis they came to
Thessaloniki…

4 And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks,
and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.

10 Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea.

12 Therefore many of them believed and also not a few of the Greeks,
prominent women as well as men.

The Acts prove that:

1. St. Paul visited the Macedonian cities of Philippi, Thessaloníki, and Berea.
   These cities retain the same Greek names since centuries ago.
   These names verify the Greek identity of Macedonia.

2. St. Paul met in Thessaloniki and Berea Greek women and Greek men,
   who believed in Christianity. The Slavs therefore with the maps of “Macedonia”
   that exist in their schoolbooks and through the literature they produce about
   Macedonia, are being deceptive, trying to convince everyone that there was no Greek
   element in Macedonia.

3. St. Paul spoke and wrote the letters to the Thessalonians and Philippians in the
   Greek language, thus verifying that the language of the Macedonians was Greek.

In the National Research Center in Athens there are 5,000 Macedonian inscriptions
and 11,000 names in Greek, which are published in various historical books.
We are challenging the Slavs to produce just one inscription in the so-called
“Macedonian” language.

The Slavs by falsifying the historical truth, verified by St. Paul, insult his memory.
They also refuse the undoubted truth that Alexander the Great was Hellene, thus
insulting the memory of Prophet Daniel who prophesized in Chapter 8, pr. 3, of the
Old Testament, that the Ram, meaning the King of the Medes (pr. 20) would be defeated
by the Goat of Aeges; in other word he would be defeated by the King of the Greeks
(pr. 21). In Chapter 1 of the Maccabees, Alexander the Great defeated Darius, the
Persian King.