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cry is always afyog , a £ io ;) , he is Considered as duly qualified to commence his holy functions .
There is a chapel for almost fcivery pr iest , it being considered a kiad of spiritual adultery for any man to officiate out of his own place of worship . It is this that has muliiplied the number of churches in Greece . In Athens
alone there are forty churches , Besides a hundred and fifty cha * pels ^ and those in all Attica drhoiMit to four thousand ; but this includes every consecrated cavern \^ hh a d oor to it and a stone altar .
* S&rfce writers have represented lH ^ lVidtVasteries as the abodes of efery Vicfe , and , as it appeared to tfi ' d'J with great injustice . As to tK ^ accomplishments of those in hWly Orders , they must be Considerably improved ; during the last
cehtary , if it be true , as TournefM * t savs , c * that / ' in his time , * £ f t \ Vas fereat merit in the clergy tb rfcadj" and ** that scarce twelve tti& \ in the empire understood ancient Greek . " Betcm had before
said , that only two or three of all the thousands on Mount Athos , ktafcw their letters . * The onl y p ^ rsoris of liberal sentiments , with respect to religion , with whom I met in Greece , were a bishop and t \ Vo hadjis , or priests , who had b £ c * n to Jerusalem . The more one
knGXv ' s and sees , the less one bt > - Iieires and admires . This bishop ha * d initiated himself so deeply into the mysteries of his ftuth , that he began to despise them , and the hkdjis who had seen the holy city ^ declared that it was not worth j&ring to see , nor worth seeing ,
* Sec Roy ' s Collection ol ? curious Voyages an 4 Travel * , Tom . xv . cap , ii , p . y .
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regretting the thousand piastres * they had each spent upon their pilgrimage .
The generality , of the priesthood ' are certainly most ignorant , stupid , and inactive , and to increase their gains , encourage the rest of the people in superstitions so absurd , that it is difficult to think that they believe them themselves .
It is too true that to ttiern may be , in a great measure , attributed the debasement of the Greeks , or at least the continuation of that people in iheir present stat ^ of ruetu tal impotence . According ,, to them , the \ v 6 rld is still full of
wonders , and the devij , p ^^ so ^ es an active and apparent i p 4 M ^ over the bodies and § quj $ ^ f , rq ^ n * Thus there are n ^ any E y ^ fyqvfj . avot or Possessed ^ and the e ^ prtcising of these uuforliinpjte p ^ uns i * a frequent and profitable ^ Deployment for the priests , > . u j all
The Athenians wy ^ p ^ the Greeks , the most c ^ e ^ M ^ us , or inclined to invent ^ 'mc ' Ut ^ us stories on this sVibjeCU . . ^ he ^ , all , as Vv ^ s said be fore of the women ,
believe in the power < pf magic , and work up their imaginations to such a pitch , as to faucy themselves actually the sufferers by the incantations of some malevolent
enemy . If a ; girl h ^ s two suitors , it in by no means yjipomrnon for the unsuccessful lover when his rival ' s ) n ^ rriag $ ^ kg £ j ^ po to have recouTs ^ to chiftFm ^ ' /»* a Jast
resource . H « ti ^ s Xh ^ ^ qf bis hair with a certain , ^ r ^ i of w ^ r / fe ^ t and by ev 4 ? ry Juiot , defers , ' tt » c bridegroom ' s ha ^ pp ip ^ e fpr $ nigj ^ t ; the tremendous Qpfcttatiun i ^ mwdc known , and the w > bnppy liusband ,
.. . _ . i _ v 5 * i Z k \ l j . 1 - - A - I i a r —*—*** f « I tie A and B » *\ id the DoviHn th ^ middle . ' *
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4 ^ $ State Religion amongst the Modern Greeks .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/14/
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