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

• Name	Zannis (Dimitri) Agelasto
  Title	Chadzi
  Gender	Male
  Notes	Mentioned in the Saint Anargiron Codex in 1739, cited by Zolotas. This may be the basis for Argenti's placement. 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	I3	Agelasto
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2015

  
  

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

  
  

  Family	[Agelasto]
  Children	+ 1. Zannis (Zannis) Agelasto
  Family ID	F28	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2007

  
  

• Sources

  [S119] Philip P. Argenti, Argenti 1955, (London Oxford University Press). Included in Philip Argenti's Agelasto family tree, number 3. [S2] Georgios Zolotas, Zolotas' History of Chios, (PD Sakellarios, 1928, Athens.), 262.