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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31753	The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, The coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third.	Chardin, John, Sir, 1643-1713.	1686 (1686)	Wing C2043; ESTC R12885	459,130	540

their Fasting They Consecrate Unleaven'd as well as Leaven'd Bread without any difference nor do they ever mix any Water in the Chalice unless the Wine be very strong For they hold that the Communion may be giv'n in Vinegar as well as in Wine I enquir'd of several Priests I still recite the words of the Manuscript concerning the Form of their Consecration but I never could meet with above one that could tell me Him I ask'd Whether after Consecration the Bread and VVine were Substantially the Body and Blood of Christ Upon which the Mingrelian Priest fell a Laughing as if I had spoken to him in Raillery VVhat said he is there any one that can put Christ in a Loaf VVhich way could he get into it How is it possible he should be contain'd in such a little piece of Bread What reason should move him to leave Heav'n and descend to Earth I never heard the like of the Question that you ask Then I ask'd him Whether the Mass were effectual without the words of Consecration To which he answer'd That the Mass was certainly effectual without 'em yet that the Priest who did not pronounce the words of Consecration did very ill But as for the Intention of Consecration requisite in him that Consecrates that 's a thing of which the Mingrelian Priests know nothing at all They make their Viaticum Bread once a Year that is to say upon Holy Thursday Which they keep in a Purse of Leather or Linnen that hangs fasten'd to their Girdles But they have no more Veneration for this Viaticum then for a Morsel of any other Vittles As for example when they go to Bed they lay it under the Bolster with the rest of their Furniture and when a sick Person sends for any of this Viaticum they open the Purse and take out a piece and give it the Messenger for the use of the Person that wants it whether Man Woman or Child And because this Viaticum is usually very dry they break it with their Hands upon a Stone or in a Platter never minding to gather up the Bits or Crums that fall to the Ground which afterwards they put into a Draught of Wine and give it the sick At the Years end the Priest empties out of his Purse upon the Altar the remainder of the Viaticum if there be any left where generally the Mice come and eat it By which you may conjecture what is the Opinion and Belief which the Mingrelians have of the Holy Sacraments They anoint the Foreheads of their Children so soon as they are born and the Oyl which they make use of for this purpose is call'd Myrone But they are not Baptiz'd till a long time after nor does any one Baptize his Child until he be in a Capacity to make a Feast after the Ceremony is over which is the reason that many Childern die without being ever Baptiz'd And when they do perform the Ceremony they never carry the Child to the Church but into a Cellar or Vault where the Priest sits down without minding to put on his Sacerdotal Habit and reads a good while in a Book which being ended the Godfather strips the Child washes him all over with Water and then rubs him from Head to Foot which done he dresses the Child again and gives it to eat And then the Priest the Father the Godfather and the Guests invited sit down at the Table There is not one Priest among 'em all that understands the Form of Baptism so that 't is a Question whether their Baptism be to any purpose or no. Which is the reason that our Theatin Monks Baptize as many Childern as they can which they generally do under the pretence of some Physical Application by that means concealing the Office of the Priesthood under the disguise of Physical Operation There are very few People in Mingrelia whether Ecclesiastical or Seculars that make any Confessions and I think I might well say there are none at all For they believe it to be a sufficient Satisfaction for their Sins to offer a Present to their Idols which is the utmost address of their Worship and limit of their Religion They never make use of Extream Unction which is a thing of which they are utterly ignorant They do not believe that Ordination imprints a Character not to be defac'd And therefore they Ordain anew those who have been degraded as if they had never been in Orders They do not allow Marriage to be in the Number of the Sacraments 'T is a Contract by way of Bargain and Sale for the Parents of the Maid agree upon the price which the person that demands her in Marriage is to give for her The price of a Woman repudiated is less then that of a VVidow and the price of a VVidow less then that of a Maid VVhen the Match is concluded the Party concern'd makes it his Business to raise the Sum agreed upon for the purchase of his Mistress which he raises by the Sale of his Subjects if he have any or their Childern to the Turks either for Ready Money or Commodities However while he is raising the Sum he has Liberty to go privately and see his Mistress nor is it any scandal if her Belly swell before she is married At length when the Young Man has rais'd the Sum agreed upon by the Parents he carries it to 'em and that Day they make a great Feast together and that is the first Day of the Nuptials The next Day the Parents Conduct the Bride to the Bridegroom's House and usually give him either in Slaves Cattle or Houshold-Goods the value they have receiv'd from him and upon the fourth or fifth of these Feasting Days the Ceremony is concluded according to the Custom of the Greek Church only in this that the Ceremony is perform'd not in the Church but over the Door But if any one have marry'd a Barren VVoman or of an ill Disposition and ugly Humour they hold it not only lawful but requisite to Divorce her in regard it was no Match of Gods making for that God does always that which is good and never makes Matches between people that are Barren or whose Humours are incompatible one with another There is not a Man among 'em that understands the Bible or that reads it there being very few among 'em that can read or understand the Georgian which is the only Language wherein they have the Holy Scripture written But as for the VVomen they are not altogether so ignorant as the Men so that you shall have some of them who will rehearse several Stories of the Gospel which they have read and got by Heart Their Fasts are almost the same which the Greeks observe For they observe the four great Lents The first before Easter being 48 Days That before Christmas which lasts 40 Days That which is call'd St. Peter's Fast which holds very near a Month and the last which the Oriental Christians observe in Honour of the