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they hid been buried in a nefghfcourhig field . * -Since that time revelations of ihis fcort liaVe beeri frequent ; and St . Nicholas delivered a similar iriesfeage to a woman whilst we
"were at Athens . The holy apparition told the lady that he was rooming about in a church , which Itad fallen and vvas buried under ground , from which he desired to tie delivered , and pointed out the spot Where thfey . were to dig and
effect his release . Accordingly the nefct day the lady , who was m otifce regarded as a saint for having been thought worthy of stfch a communication , atcompartied by a large party ,
consisting df the most respectable archons and priests , walked in proce&sion to the place described , and pitched upon a part of the road west df that going to the Piraeus , &ttd leading to the gardens , about half a fnile from the town . After
tugging a short time in two places , they cktne to soriie bits of painted tile , \ vhich may bs found almost Sany tyhfere near Athens , and especially ill this quarter , the old site of the Ceramicus without the
city . Immediately there was a Cry of the church ! the church ! ( eklesia ! eklesia !)—all the crowd begkn crossing themselves—candles were burnt before the holes—
and an opulent Greek , possessed of the land immediately close to the road-tfide , made a present of n to the saint , to be dug away , in © refer to givfe him a fre ^ r egress , and to lay open the whole church . There was £ cornmotioh at
Athens on accbunt of thkrflfecttvery , and the road would have beien entirely < 5 ut vp in f ! he course
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of thte Religious searcfh , had rioft the Turks prudently interfered ^ ahd prevented all fiatther excavations . As it ieafc , howeVer , tfre spot was for many days watched by crowds of pious tvorfchipbei's ,
and , whilst I Vvas present , a sort of controversy todk place as to the respective merits of the two apertures ^ one of which was at last deserted , arid all the tapers were burht out before the other opening ih the ground- An old
woman most earnestly appealed to me to tell her which was the real church ;' when , as gravely as was in my power , I told her that they were under a sad mistake , and that the cavity which they had deserted was , in fact , the true church of St . Nicholas . The
intelligence was immediately spread amongst the crowd , that the Frank had decided in favour of the other spot , and immediately the tapers were all carried off to the deserted place , and all the crossing , bowing , and praying , were directed to the hole in the ground which had been before neglected . The Greeks had listened to my decision ; for Franks are thought by
them to possess a preternatural , but by no means an enviable , degree of knowledge , communicated to them by the Evil Principle , their master and guide . Th £ children in the streets when one of
them is passing , call out , " Franco di Dio ! Franco di Dio ! " by which , though I kh # not how the Sentence is suppifed , they mean , " Godless Frank ! Godless Frsrik !" The abhorrenefe of the Franks , which the division of the churches ,
and the conduct of the Latins , created in the bbsorrt * < rf the GrceK * . is Still itl tom £ measure
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iftfD mate of Religion dmongst the Modern Greefo *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/16/
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