Chadzi Pandelis (Dimitri) Agelasto^{[1, 2]}

Bef 1743 - Aft 1746  (4 years)

• Name	Pandelis (Dimitri) Agelasto
  Title	Chadzi
  Birth	Bef 1743	Smyrna/Izmir, Turkey
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1746
  Notes	Mentioned in the documents of the Evangelical School of Smyrna in 1743, 1764 by Zolotas. He and his wife pay at the Moundon Monastery to have their names included, along with that of Ioannis Agelasto in the Friday evening and Saturday morning memorial sermons (Codex of Monastery of Moundon, about 1746). Argenti gives him the title "Chadzi". Chatzi derives from the arab word hajj, which means the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Christians´pilgrimage was not to Mecca, of course, but to the Holy Places in Palestine. For an orthodox Greek it was, in former times, a great honor to be able to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Places and, to make things perfect, to be baptized in the Jordan River, like Jesus. This made him then a Chatzi and he was so proud of it that he added this term to his name. Some put it in front of their Christian name ("Chatzi Dimitri Agelasto"), others combined it with their surname. Even in our days there are countless Greeks with surnames of the sort "Chatzikonstantinou", "Chatziapostolou" etc. (George Agelasto)
  Person ID	I5	Agelasto
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	Chadzi Dimitri (unknown) Agelasto
  Mother	[Agelasto]
  Family ID	F27	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria [Agelasto]
  Children	+ 1. Michael (Pandelis) Agelasto + 2. Dimitri (Pandelis) Agelasto,   b. Bef 1787   d. Bef 1829 (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2007

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Bef 1743 - Smyrna/Izmir, Turkey  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 5. [S2] Georgios Zolotas, Zolotas' History of Chios, (PD Sakellarios, 1928, Athens.), 262.