at the Byzantine liturgy in the church; and I suppose no particular hindrance would be made if they wanted to receive a sacrament in it. But it is not a pious institution. Even before the secularization the college was a great centre of liberal ideas. The Albanians in general were enthusiastic for Garibaldi and the revolution. It is said that, even when it was a seminary, there were more pictures of Garibaldi on the walls of the students' rooms than pictures of saints.[1] In theory this should still be the residence of the Byzantine ordaining bishop for Calabria. His throne may still be seen in the church. But because of difficulties with the governing body of the college, he now lives at Naples (p. 178). However, the town of San Demetrio Corone is still an important Albanian centre. It was originally one of the settlements of the Albanian refugees from Korone in the Peloponnesus, and the church was dedicated to St Demetrius. The village is still entirely Albanian; there are nearly 4,000 of them here.[2] Macchia[3] is 2 kilos. north-east of San Demetrio. It has 700 Albanians. San Cosimo,[4] 3½ kilos. east of Macchia, has about 1,000, Vaccarizzo Albanese,[5] a kilo. and a half north-east again, has 2,000. San Giorgio Albanese,[6] 1½ kilos. south-east, has 1,770. These are all the Albanian villages of this group. Five kilos. east of San Giorgio we come to the town of Corigliano Calabro, and then, 10 kilos. south-east, to Rossano. In neither of these are any Albanians left. Of this group San Benedetto and S Sofia are in the diocese of San Marco and Bisignano; the others in Rossano.
Except perhaps Lungro, all the Albanian villages of Calabria give the impression of great poverty. All Calabria
- ↑ Vannutelli, op. cit., 129; Netzhammer, loc. cit., p. 92. When they do go to church, they scribble things in pencil on the walls during the Liturgy.
- ↑ For S Demetrio Corone see Rodotà, op. cit., iii, 110; Vannutelli, pp. 143-145; Netzhammer, pp. 90-92.
- ↑ Rodota, iii, 101; Vannutelli, 123-125.
- ↑ Rodotà, iii, 101; Vannutelli, 122-123.
- ↑ Rodota, iii, 101-102; Vannutelli, 117-121.
- ↑ Rodotà, iii, 102.
countrymen across the Adriatic. So it protects their missions to Albania. There is now a chair of Albanian at the University of Naples. On the other hand, the clergy complain that the Government is trying to italianize the people and make them anti-clerical. And the Albanians, who are inordinately proud of their own race, dislike and affect to despise their Italian neighbours. The first thing they tell you in every Albanian village is, "We are not Italians; we are Albanians."
