The Present Condition And Prospects of the Greek, Or Oriental, Church: With ...
The Present Condition And Prospects of the Greek, Or Oriental, Church: With ...
George Waddington
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; But I. shall here confine my description . to the miracle ..of the Holy Fire, which I have selected, notwi^^^anding' its greater notoriety, partly because it is Jil^Hof^such high io^portance as to be with many the jMrincipal object of pilgrimage, and partly bejpa^se ' it .is probably the grossest imposture at thjb momeiit practised by the impudence of any priesthood on the credulity of any people.: r . f i . . i Of the pilgrims who assemble every Easter. at the Holy City, the largest mid ^mos...t igno^nt por^r tion are of the Greek ^d. Armeni|in churches.: to these therefore the Turks, have conuditted the peiv formance of the miracle; the priests fail not. to make some profit by their labours ; and the TJudts, by their connivance, secure the double satisfitotiM of extorting the money and insulting the re^om^i Christians. The ceremony is performed on the Silt^vshjrt Digitized by Google 7BB. G.&EBX CHVRCH* 7? imd.llie'ateiie is Ae |Ioly Sepul&re and the little cbspel anneKed to.it,. which stapds a separate buildr log ^rilhin the church on Mount Calvary.
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