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A42631	A description of the present state of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos by Joseph Georgirenes ... ; translated by one that knew the author in Constantinople.; Perigraphē tēs parousēs katastaseōs tēs Samou, Ikarias, Patmou, kai Athōnos. English	Geōrgarinēs, Iōsēph, 17th cent.; Denton, Henry, 1633?-1681.	1678 (1678)	Wing G536; ESTC R7929	42,183	134

or under the reproach of an Harlot This done he comes to a Confessour who among other Sins doth particularly put him upon the Confession of those Sins that by the Canon would exclude him from entring into Orders And though his Confessour give him a good Testimony yet a Week before the Ordination the Bishop doth openly in the Church charge all the Assembly under the Peril of Excommunication if they know him guilty of any Crime that may render him unworthy of Holy Orders to reveal it before the next Sunday Which if any Man do and make good his Accusation he is denied Holy Orders if the Accuser be found to Impeach him falsely he is Excommunicated for his false Accusation and the other Ordain'd After the Candidate for Holy Orders has thus made his way the day before he enters into Priests Orders he comes to the Metropolite who having try'd whether he Read and Write without false Pronuntiation or mis-spelling and being satisfied in that point doth presently Ordain him Sub-deacon and Deacon and the next day Priest if he be of sufficient Age. The Age for a Reader is 18 For a Sub-Deacon 20 For a Deacon 25. For a Priest 30 Nevertheless it is left to the Discretion of the Metropolite to dispense with the Canon as he shall see occasion according to the example of Anicetus who Ordained St. Eleutherius a Priest at 18 and Bishop of Illyrium at 20. If a Papas Marry a second time he is deprived of his Orders and called ever after Apopapas But nothing hinders the Widow of a Priest to Marry again The Papas is obliged to Read Prayers and Administer the Sacrament every Sunday and Holy-day The day before a Sacrament he is to sing the Vespers and after Supper to rehearse a Prayer call'd the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if after that Prayer said he chance to Eat or Drink that Night he is oblig'd to go to Church and say that Prayer again Likewise that Night he is not allow'd to lye with his Wife Every Parishioner is obliged to bring to Church a Loaf to the Weight of seven or eight pounds which is mark'd with these three words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jesus Christ overcomes Of this Bread the Priest distributes to every one a Morsel and the rest goes to himself If any man desire the Sacrament upon other days than Sundays or Holidays he sends to the Priest the day before to prepare himself according to the Canon The next Morning the Priest sends to him to bring with him what is necessary for Celebration viz. a Loaf marked as before a Wax Taper of two Aspers and Incense of one Asper for they never Celebrate without a lighted Taper and Incense and a Quart of Wine and three Aspers in Money What is left of the Bread and Wine goes to the Priest with three Aspers He that leaves it to the Priest to provide necessaries brings with him 15 Aspers The Parish Priests excepting those that are very ancient or Widowers never confess any That employment is left ordinarily to the Caloirs of the Order of St. Basil whereof there wants not some every where dispersed throughout the whole Greek Church to beg Almes for the Monks of Athos from whence they are sent Yet neither they nor any Parish Priest confess any without a particular License from the Metropolite who doth enjoyn them under a Mortal Sin not to exact any Money for Absolution But if after Absolution the Penitent offer any thing they receive it If the Penitent desires any Prayers to be said for him in some Monastry of Mount Athos he gives Money in consideration of the Prayers to be said for him If the Parish Priest have any Lands he thinks it no shame to Till them himself But he resides constantly in the Parish to be ready upon all occasions for the Sick to whom he says the Prayers appointed by the Church for Sick people If a Woman be in Child-birth he is sent for to say some Prayers appointed for that occasion nor can the company that come to assist the Woman in her Travail leave the House 'till the Priest come and perform the Sacred Ceremonies appointed by the Church for Women in Child-bed accounting it a great contempt of God and a thing ominous and of ill foreboding to the success of the person in Labour to neglect their solemn address to God in the prayers appointed by publick Authority for that Emergency A Woman after Child-birth stirs not abroad neither to Church nor to other Houses till 40 days be expir'd Then she is brought to the Church Door where the Priest having said the Prayers appointed for that occasion she is permitted to go to Church or to other Houses The Children ordinarily are not Baptiz'd till 40 days after Birth sometimes under pretence of the Parents or Gossips absence not till half a Year a whole Year or more But this is alwayes in case the Child be healthy and strong for upon the least suspition of the Childs being weak or likely to dye the Priest is sent for by the Parents and without any further Ceremony the Child is Baptized in this manner N. 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The servant of God doth Baptize thee in the Name of the Father Amen Of the Son Amen And of the Holy Ghost from henceforth and for evermore Amen In private Baptism they use only Water Oyl and a Lamp burning before the Picture of the Virgin Mary For there is no House so poor which has not the Picture of the Blessed Virgin or some other Saint before which they pray Morning and Night after they have lighted a Lamp In publick Baptism the Child is brought to the Church Porch where after the Priest has said ●n Exorcism the Child is brought to the Font and being interrogated by the Priest the God-father makes answer and rehearseth the Creed thrice Then the Priest Consecrates the Water which being hot he pours into 't Oil Olive and Anoints the Child on several parts of the Body The Child is Anointed on the Forehead Mouth Ears Breast Hands Knees and Feet with these words at every place The Seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit Then the God-father claps a Cross to the Childs Breast This done the Priest takes the Child stark naked and baths him all over thrice in the Water saying the same words as you had in private Baptism After the third Bathing he pours some of the Water upon the Child's Head Then delivering the Child into the hands of the God-Fathers he puts a Shirt on the Child with these words Jesus Christ our merciful God cloathed with Light give thee a bright Garment All the Greeks of the Island that b Marry first obtain a License of the Arch-Bishop or his Grand Vicar Then the Priest having examined if they have any Legal prohibition of affinity or otherwise either at the Church or their own Houses Marrys them in this manner After the Reading of that part of the Liturgy which

Tower at Livadi it being a convenient place for Vine-yards and Fishing 8. Agrio Livadi before which lies St. Thecla's Isle with a little Church dedicated to that Saint 9. Port Sapsila before which lies a little Island with a Church in it dedicated to St. Luke 10. Port Gricou next to Scala for commodiousness The Island Tragonesi or Isle of Goats defends it from all Winds 11. Diacopti famous for Salt Pits which belong to the Caloirs Besides this Port is a steep Rock of a very great height which they call Cynops from the Magician in St. John's days whom the People report to have lodg'd in a great Cave in this Rock which Cave they yet believe to be haunted by Devils For once letting down a Man into 't by a Cord for curiosity to see what was in the Cave they pull'd him up dead 12. Meloi a Mile from Port Scala And so we have finish'd the Circuit of the Island in naming the Ports The Inland Villages are 1. Livadi 2. Vagie well beset with Vines and Figtrees 3. Megalocampos rich in the same Fruits and accommodated with a Lake well stor'd with Fish 4. Hagio Theophanes from a Church there dedicated to that Saint and built by St. Christodoulos 5. Sazousa close by the Sea near to which are hot Springs of Water that cure many Diseases The Island is well stored with Vines Figg-Trees Lemon and Orange Trees and Corn sufficient for the Inhabitants if they could keep what they have free from the Robbery of Pirats as well Christian as Mahometan that often pillage the poor People who have no other remedy but patience and sometimes the pleasure of seeing them perish at Sea that have been so injurious to a Shore The Patmians complain more of the Cruelty of the Christian Pirats than of the Turks And though the Islanders have procur'd Charters and Patents from the Pope the King of France from the State of Venice from the Dukes of Tuscany from the Grand Master of Maltha to secure them from the Injuries of Christian Corsairs it is so far from prevailing upon them to withhold their hands from rapine that it does but provoke them to more fierceness Yet these Pirats sometimes are made the visible objects of Divine Vengeance About six years ago the Marquess de Fleury that carry'd away not only the Grazing but the Working Cattle had got no further than Paros 'till his Ship sunk in the Port and he was taken Prisoner and clapt into custody at Corfou by the Venetians Another that pillag'd the Monastry of Liptos had no sooner put to Sea but meeting with some Saiks to which he gave earnest Chase he run himself a Ground and there perish'd he and all his Company Let us now return to the State and Government of the Place The whole Island was given by a Alexius Comnenus to Christodoulus and his successours in the Monastry and the Islands near about that were not inhabited And what Culture they bestow on the little Islands or what Cattle they put to Grazing there becomes all a Prey to the Corsairs so that the Revenues of this Monastry are now much diminish'd and the Monks become extremely poor And his Son Calo Johannes gave also fourteen Villages in Candie But the Turks left them but one small Hospital in Candie which yields them 200 Dollars a Year whereas their Revenues before were at least 13000. Besides the great Monastry there is a little Nunnery containing 40 Nuns This was built but an age ago They purchase their living by their labour for they have no Revenues only the Abbot of the great Monastry is oblig'd to supply them with a Reverend Ancient Monk to do all Sacred Offices among them Besides these there are some small Hermitages that maintain some few Monks 1. The Hermitage of the Holy Grotto of St. John the Divine 2. The Hermitage of the Parasceve 3. Of the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin lately built by a Bishop in this last Century 4. The Hermitage called Asomati Lastly in a place called the Gardens which furnish the Monks Kitchin with all necessaries They have certain Chappels consecrated for the Labourers at certain Hours to hear Prayers and so return to their Work And this is the present Condition of the Isle of Patmos once famous for the Residence of that great Apostle St. John and for the great and mysterious Revelation he had in it But now groaning under the Yoke of such Lords as are common enemies to the Christian Faith by whom they are both kept in great awe and slavish obedience and yet ill protected against the violent Incursion of Pirats and Robbers so that Poverty is their best Protection against Rapine and Patience the only Remedy against the grievous Yoak of Tyrannical Oppression A DESCRIPTION OF MOUNT ATHOS MOunt Athos is a demy-Isle or Chersonese lying betwixt the Gulf of Strymon from a River of that name on the North and the Gulf of Singus from the Town Singus on the South The Isthmus or Neck of Land that parts them is not much above a Mile broad It is called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Athonas by the Franks or Western Christians Monte Santo It is 170 Miles in compass Lemnos stands directly East of it some 40 Miles distant and a little before Sun-set is overshadow'd by it Thassos is 30 Miles distant to the North-east Thessalonica is four days Journey to the West and Philippopoli as many to the North. On the Land side there stands erected a great Wooden Cross beyond which all Women are forbidden to pass Because the Caloirs the only Inhabitants of the place are forbidden all communication with Women as the principal Rule of their Profession Not far from this Cross without the Bounds on the Water-side stands a Village call'd Alladiava The Inhabitants live most upon Fishing and bring their Fish to sell to the Caloris If perchance their Wives or any Women of their Family come along with the Men they are left in the Boat and not suffer d to step a Shore for fear of Excommunication for the highest Rule of Discipline and the most strictly observed is that of not conversing with Women And for more caution and better security of preserving this Rule inviolable they suffer no other Female Creature of what kind soever nor any Children or young men that are Beardless to come within the Mount. In describing the place we cannot pass from Town to Village but only from Monastrys to Hermitages 1. The first and most ancient St. Laura built by Athanasius who obtained special License of the Emperour of Constantinople to retire hither and found a College of Monks so called from that Monastry of Laura of Bethlehem where St. Saba liv'd and his Disciple John once Bishop of Colonia in Armenia and afterwards Monk after the Discipline of St. Saba whose Disciples from a peculiar Rule of Silence which they did solemnly profess and strictly practice were call'd Silentiarii Of this

Order was Anastasius the Emperour before he was advanc'd to the Imperial Dignity Of whom Baronius relates that in the Year of our Lord 491 he was from a Professour of silence made a Soveraign Prince Ex Silentiario factus Imperator The Monks of the place have a long Story how this Athanasius wanting Money to go on with the great Church of the Monastry which he had begun was met with by the Blessed Virgin who took his staff from him and smote a Rock 'till it sent out a Spring of Water that runs at this day then thrusting his staff into the Ground it became a Tree and sent forth Boughs and Leaves Then she bid him take no care for necessaries she would provide and did avow her self to be the Patroness of that Monastry and of the whole Mountain This Monastry is about a Mile from the Sea on the East side and hath a convenient Channel that brings up Vessels to their very Walls where they have a strong Magazin and a Sentinel perpetually standing to give notice of any Corsairs It hath likewise a very fair Church and in their Hall where they eat in common there is a large Marble Table where 600 Monks sit down together 2. The Monastry of Caracale the Name of its Founder who did consecrate it to the Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul This is eight Miles from the former towards the North. It maintains 500 Monks The Gate of the Monastry is adorn'd with an exceeding high Tower Here is likewise a Cistern cut out of a Rock 26 Fathoms deep This also being near the Sea has upon the shore a Watch Tower a Magazin and a little Port. 3. Philothe from the Founders name This maintains but 50 Monks though well stor'd with Orchards and Gardens with its Watch Tower and Magazin also by the Sea side Their Church is dedicated to the Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin 4. Imberus by the name of its Founder This Monastry is in great repute for a Picture of the Virgin Mary upon the Gate which Picture by the report of Tradition was found floating by the Shore This Monastry has good Revenues in Imbrus and maintains 400 Monks 5. Coutulmousi maintains 300 Monks it is commodiously surrounded with Gardens and has a fair Church dedicated to the Transfiguration of our Saviour 6. Porpat Here is the general Assembly of all the Monastries in this Mountain hither every Monastry sends a Deputy under the name of Proesti whose business is to reside in the place and to be ready to consult of all affairs that concern the publick Good Here is every Saturday a publick Market and the only Market within the whole circumference of the Mount Here also dwells the Aga with two or three other Turks who protects them from all injuries of other Turks especially of the Sea-men from Barbary whom they call Levents The Bostangy-Basha appoints this Officer from amongst the Bostangies He is to stay in his Office two years and then another succeeds him He is maintained at the common charge of the Caloirs who give him a yearly Pension And besides upon every Church Festival he is invited from Monastry to Monastry by course and there besides the Entertainment of him and his Retinue he is always presented with a Purse of Money according to the abilities of the Monastry 7. Stauro-Nikita or The Conquering Cross This maintains but 30 Monks Their Church is dedicated to St. Nicholas where they have in great estimation his Picture upon a Board that was found ready painted as a Wreck and devoutly taken up by the Monks of this Covent 8. Pantocratoras maintains 200 Monks their Church is dedicated to the Transfiguration of our Blessed Saviour 9. Vatopedi maintains 300 their Church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin 10. Tousimenou has but 80 Monks the Church is dedicated to the Ascension It is the poorest of all the Monastry not for want of Lands but of Men to cultivate them For the soil about is the best in all the Mount It bears Olives of a singular largeness and wants no other sort of Fruit Trees But the number of the Monks in it amount but to 80 who being not able to make the best advantage of so much good ground continue poor in a plentiful Soil In the middle of all the Mount stands 11. Chiliantary a Monastry of the Bulgarians who speak here their own Language and have their Prayers though the same with the Greek in the Bulgarian Language This is the largest Monastry of the whole Island and maintains 800 Monks They have much Land abroad which they send their own Monks to cultivate 12. Touzographou or the Painters Convent from the Founder who was a Painter The Church is consecrated to St. George it maintains 200 Monks all Bulgarians There is a little Church not far from this Monastry that stands alone and now is useless but having a fair Picture of St. George in it the Monks thought fit to bring it into their own Church but to no purpose for so often as they brought it so often it takes its leave and is found the next day in the Church 13. Xenophon a Burgarian Monastry has but 30 Caloirs 14. Castamoniti has not above six or seven Monks at most yet it hath a Chappel dedicated to St. Steven 15. Archangeli which had before another name but changed to this upon this occasion A young Caloir that was tilling the Ground abroad found a Treasure in an old Urn and brought the news of it to the Superiour of the Convent he sent with the young Man two other Caloirs who finding the Treasure agreed between themselves to kill the Boy and share it betwixt them and so they ty'd a Stone about his neck and cast him into the Sea and hiding the Treasure came to the Superiour and told him the Boy had deceiv'd them and was run away Next morning the Sexton found the Boy and the Stone about his neck in the Church who discover'd all and told that the Angels Gabriel and Raphael brought him thither The two Caloirs thus convicted were banish'd and this stone set up as a Monument to this day 16. The Monastry of Russicon has a Church dedicated to Panteleimon and maintains 20 Caloirs 17. Xeropotamou dedicated to the Memory of 40 Martyrs that were drowned in the Lake of Sebaste This Monastry has 300 Monks and being by the Sea side has a Magazin and a great Watch-Tower Over against this Monastry on the Continent of Macedonia stands a great Village of Hermits and religious Persons though without the bounds of the Caloirs 18. Simo-Petra so called from the Founder and the Foundation It is situate on a Rock and was founded by one Simon an Hermit who by his Prayers having cured the Daughter of a Governour of Cassandria did move him to bestow enough for to build this Monastry and 200 Monks They shew here an hand for a sacred Relique of St. Mary Magdalen's body but the