The three men formed a secret society called the Filiki Eteria (The Society of Friends) with the decidedly “unfriendly” purpose of initiating an armed uprising to rid Greece of the Ottomans. In 1814, three like-minded Diaspora Greeks came together in Odessa, in present-day Ukraine, at that time home to a thriving Greek community. His last words were: “I have sown a rich seed the hour is coming when my country will reap its glorious fruits.” It was 1798. He was then thrown into the Danube River to drown. Tragically, while in Austria he was betrayed and was later arrested in Trieste by the Ottomans. Feraios travelled in the Balkans, Italy and Austria in an attempt to drum up support for the Greek cause of liberation.
