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108 MARTYRDOM FOLLOWED BY A MIRACLE. [CHAP.
without the walls. When every thing was ready, the
Bey again asked the eldest whether he would become
a Mohammedan17: No! his faith was firm: he replied,
" I was born a Christian, and a Christian I will die18;"
and, in an instant, his two companions saw his head
severed from his body. The second, nothing shaken in
his resolution by the sight, when asked to choose between
the Crescent and the axe, answered that he would follow
his brother: on this he also was beheaded. The cousin
of these two sufferers was very young, and, though firm
of purpose, was unable to make any answer, when the
same proposal was repeated to him. He was seized by
the attendants, and, the next moment, his body likewise
was a headless bleeding trunk.
The Bishop of Rhithymnos went near the spot that
night, and also the two next evenings. Each time he
saw a light19 descend on the bodies of the two, who,
with so holy and fervent a zeal, had earned the crown
of martyrdom. The blood-stained clothes of all the
three unfortunates were cut off, and distributed : a very
small portion of any part of them, if burnt in a sick
chamber, used to effect the invalid's immediate restora-
tion to health.
I will now give the story of a Mohammedan chief-
tain's death, which happened near this city a few years
earlier, in an action with the Christians under Captain
Russo and Papa-Anagndstes. Glemedh-Ali was my
hero's name, and he was one of the most celebrated
native leaders whom the Cretan Mohammedans ever
had in their sanguinary contest with the Christians of
17 TovpKevets j) o^i ; "Oxt, Sev TovpKevui.
18 'Avtoovloi eyevinjdriKa, 'Avtcovlos 6d diroQdvui. I might compare the
conversation between Ome'r-Vridnis and Dhiakos : Fauriel, Chants popu-
lates de la Grece moderne, Tom. n. p. 36.
" Tcvearai Toupnos Amxko fiov, Trjv tt'mjtiv uoti v dXXd^ys ;
vd irpoGKVvas ck to t^ap.1, ti\v eKK\i}<jidv v d<p))<7\)s ;
K' CKeluos t' direKpidriKe, Kal /xc dupou tov \eyei'
Eyw rpatKos y« i/i/jjGtj/ca, Fpaucos ueX diraioavta."
without the walls. When every thing was ready, the
Bey again asked the eldest whether he would become
a Mohammedan17: No! his faith was firm: he replied,
" I was born a Christian, and a Christian I will die18;"
and, in an instant, his two companions saw his head
severed from his body. The second, nothing shaken in
his resolution by the sight, when asked to choose between
the Crescent and the axe, answered that he would follow
his brother: on this he also was beheaded. The cousin
of these two sufferers was very young, and, though firm
of purpose, was unable to make any answer, when the
same proposal was repeated to him. He was seized by
the attendants, and, the next moment, his body likewise
was a headless bleeding trunk.
The Bishop of Rhithymnos went near the spot that
night, and also the two next evenings. Each time he
saw a light19 descend on the bodies of the two, who,
with so holy and fervent a zeal, had earned the crown
of martyrdom. The blood-stained clothes of all the
three unfortunates were cut off, and distributed : a very
small portion of any part of them, if burnt in a sick
chamber, used to effect the invalid's immediate restora-
tion to health.
I will now give the story of a Mohammedan chief-
tain's death, which happened near this city a few years
earlier, in an action with the Christians under Captain
Russo and Papa-Anagndstes. Glemedh-Ali was my
hero's name, and he was one of the most celebrated
native leaders whom the Cretan Mohammedans ever
had in their sanguinary contest with the Christians of
17 TovpKevets j) o^i ; "Oxt, Sev TovpKevui.
18 'Avtoovloi eyevinjdriKa, 'Avtcovlos 6d diroQdvui. I might compare the
conversation between Ome'r-Vridnis and Dhiakos : Fauriel, Chants popu-
lates de la Grece moderne, Tom. n. p. 36.
" Tcvearai Toupnos Amxko fiov, Trjv tt'mjtiv uoti v dXXd^ys ;
vd irpoGKVvas ck to t^ap.1, ti\v eKK\i}<jidv v d<p))<7\)s ;
K' CKeluos t' direKpidriKe, Kal /xc dupou tov \eyei'
Eyw rpatKos y« i/i/jjGtj/ca, Fpaucos ueX diraioavta."