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    and , apparently , kept up as long as the breath of the chanter will last . It is some time bffore you can make out the words they are repeating , which , though you rnay have supposed them a continued pvalm or lesson , arc only 4 < Lord have mercy upon me ; Lord have mercy upon mo ; Lord Jesus Christ have merc \ upon me , a sinner . "

    — Kvpis eteijO'Gv , Kvzis eXeyrov , ' K . VptB I' ^ fTC O yL pKTTB h \ sy )> T 0 V LLS 70 V

    cctxapioXoy . There is , at the same time , a degree of primitive simplicity in most of th <* churches , which recalls our

    recollections to the curliest ages of Christianity . They are very small generally , the floor of mud , the altar of stone , the sanctuary

    separated from the nave bv deal boards , find an enclosure of pales at the other end for the women . It is but seldom that tliere -are any

    seats , but in one corner of the building there is an assortment of crutches , on one of which each of the more aged \ voishippers supports himself , leaning on his arms and chin , in the posture of one of the figures in the cartoorj of Paul preaching before Felix .

    In the great towns , as you have heard , and in some of the monasteries , the churches are better fitted up , though in Jhe most paltry style , covered wilji gilt daubing ** , and ornamented with piptures ot

    saints , whose only value arises from their supposed miraculous powers . If ; would be difficult to meet £ , mongt > t the Jaity with a single person at all sceptical oi > the article

    of religion ; they all seem most attached to the cererrioni . , and strictly to observe the ordinances of thejf church , which are very strict anrl severe . There are only prje hundred and thirty-nine days

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    in the year free from all , fasts * The Easter Lent lasts two months * the Christmas forty days , and there are . two others , the Lent of St . Petrr and St . Paul , and that of the Virgin ; besides which , Wednesdays and Fridays are fasti throughout the year . The Caloy , ers have three other lents , which

    last in the whole forty-eight days more , The clergy enjoy a most unbounded influence with their flock , aqd it is painful to see the sacrifices which the meagre , half-starved

    peasants rnake to their priests . Besides rnany gifts , there are certain days when all the attendants , men and women , of the poorest class bring loaves and plates of sweet meats , called a co lyva and wax tapers , and lay them , during the

    service , at the foot of the altar , whence they ar ; e conveyed into the sanclqary , and seyve as the evening's feast for the priests . The colyva is a quantity of boiled wheat , covered with currants , and garnished with pomegranate-seeds ,

    sugar , comfits , sesamum and sweet basil . Thp Greek girls carry presents of these colyvas , and otheF sweet-meats , on twelfth-day , which they call Tro ^ wxsplov , to their friends ; and in some other respects , the amusements an 4 religion of

    this people , seem as much connected as in ancient times . r lhey dance in honour of some of their 6 nints , and oh the feast of the Epiphany , bands of fiddlers and other musicians , patrole the streets from morning to night .

    This feast , by accident , whilst we were at Athens , fell on the same day as the second ' Bairarn of the Turks , the 17 tB <* f January , and the Mahomtetatte Were firing cannon and dtedharglng s ) cy ?

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    434 Stftie of Religion amongst the Modern Greeks *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/10/