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RETURN TO CONSTANTINOPLE.
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In the Greeks' Hierology they observe the 23d of May1
as a great holy day to her memory, and say that she was
martyrd in the times of Antoninus, by his Proconsul
Sabinus ; that she was torn apieces by wild beasts, and
afterwards translated to Heraclea. I am sure the story
and the inscription savours of no such antiquity. This
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and is
generally called rcov fieyaXmv dirocrToXaiv. The Metropolite
has very good accommodations there for himself and his
papas. Below, in the cloyster, just at the foot of the staires
going up to the Metropolite's apartment, lyes buryed Mr.
Edward Wych, brother to Sr. Peter,2 who was Embassadore
here. He went with our chief Dragoman (yet living) to
Scio to meet Sr. Peter's Lady, then coming out of England
to her husband ; and, coming back, he touched at Tenedos,
where the plague was very rife, and he got it and dyed, and
was brought here and buryed, 1628.
Coming out of the Greekes' apartment, we went into
St. George's church (whome they call ayios Tewpyios),
who is here reverenced as the greatest Saint imaginable,
and they attribute many miracles to his image, which is
a head cut flat in wood and trimm'd up with abundance of
tinsel stuff; the candles have made it as black as soot.
The chief thing he is famed for is the deliverance of poor
mariners, and in the church was hang'd up to him infinites
of ava6i'}fj,aTa, dedicated by poor creatures which had
escaped shipwreck: most are little short pieces of halsers
or cables, or smal ropes, having one end tipt with silver.
Upon the cliff to the S.E. stand 4 or 5 windmills im-
1 Sta. Glyceria's Day is 10th of May. She suffered martyrdom at
Trajanopolis, in Thrace, under Sabinus, a.d. 140, for publicly re-
proving the President at the sacrifices. She converted her gaoler,
Laodicus.
2 Sir Peter Wych was Ambassador to the Porte in 1632. Covel's
date seems wrong.
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In the Greeks' Hierology they observe the 23d of May1
as a great holy day to her memory, and say that she was
martyrd in the times of Antoninus, by his Proconsul
Sabinus ; that she was torn apieces by wild beasts, and
afterwards translated to Heraclea. I am sure the story
and the inscription savours of no such antiquity. This
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, and is
generally called rcov fieyaXmv dirocrToXaiv. The Metropolite
has very good accommodations there for himself and his
papas. Below, in the cloyster, just at the foot of the staires
going up to the Metropolite's apartment, lyes buryed Mr.
Edward Wych, brother to Sr. Peter,2 who was Embassadore
here. He went with our chief Dragoman (yet living) to
Scio to meet Sr. Peter's Lady, then coming out of England
to her husband ; and, coming back, he touched at Tenedos,
where the plague was very rife, and he got it and dyed, and
was brought here and buryed, 1628.
Coming out of the Greekes' apartment, we went into
St. George's church (whome they call ayios Tewpyios),
who is here reverenced as the greatest Saint imaginable,
and they attribute many miracles to his image, which is
a head cut flat in wood and trimm'd up with abundance of
tinsel stuff; the candles have made it as black as soot.
The chief thing he is famed for is the deliverance of poor
mariners, and in the church was hang'd up to him infinites
of ava6i'}fj,aTa, dedicated by poor creatures which had
escaped shipwreck: most are little short pieces of halsers
or cables, or smal ropes, having one end tipt with silver.
Upon the cliff to the S.E. stand 4 or 5 windmills im-
1 Sta. Glyceria's Day is 10th of May. She suffered martyrdom at
Trajanopolis, in Thrace, under Sabinus, a.d. 140, for publicly re-
proving the President at the sacrifices. She converted her gaoler,
Laodicus.
2 Sir Peter Wych was Ambassador to the Porte in 1632. Covel's
date seems wrong.