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XXXVII.] GOOD RESULTS OF THE SAINTS PREACHING. 241
told that he thus saved the lives of at least a hundred
souls during the next five or six years. This order14
lasted till nearly the commencement of the revolution,
when the bonds of Christian brotherhood and union
against a common foe prevented the revival of old
feuds: and thus, since 1812, such exactions of ven-
geance15 as wiped out the offence in the blood of the
offender, and as used previously to be of daily occur-
rence, have scarcely ever happened16.
Our saint, after converting from their evil ways the
Sfakians and Rhizites, went into the city of Khania:
but there his eloquence was powerless, and the inha-
bitants believed not. When the Sfakians and Rhizites
learnt this, they exclaimed, " Ah, so it was when Christ
himself preached: the plain and simple peasants believed,
but the great and the learned17, the Pharisees, believed
not."
May 6.
We must now leave the modern inhabitants of these
mountains, to examine the remains left of a city built
by their ancestors. An ascent of a few minutes up the
rocky elevation at the foot of which the hamlet of Rhi'za
is built, brings us to the site of the ancient city, from
which we see alone: the southern coast as far as the
projecting point of Mesara. Franko-kastello, the scene
of Khadji Mikhali's fatal contest, and of his death, is
about twelve miles off: the white-washed church of the
Panaghfa, just by the castle, is a very distinct object:
14 Euraji'a. 15 'Ekoik>)V6is.
18 Similar effects were produced in Italy, in 1399, by the preaching of the
White Penitents. " Every one pardoned his neighbour, and dismissed the
recollection of past offences. Enmities which no ordinary means could have
reconciled were put asleep. It was a festivity of general reconciliation.
Ambuscades, assassinations, and all other crimes were for the season sus-
pended." See the note already referred to, and contained in the 3d vol. of
the History of the Church, by my learned friend Mr Waddisgton ; to
whom I am indebted for the indication of this interesting passage of his
work.
17 01 fieydXoi Kru ypajifiaTtofLCVoi.
told that he thus saved the lives of at least a hundred
souls during the next five or six years. This order14
lasted till nearly the commencement of the revolution,
when the bonds of Christian brotherhood and union
against a common foe prevented the revival of old
feuds: and thus, since 1812, such exactions of ven-
geance15 as wiped out the offence in the blood of the
offender, and as used previously to be of daily occur-
rence, have scarcely ever happened16.
Our saint, after converting from their evil ways the
Sfakians and Rhizites, went into the city of Khania:
but there his eloquence was powerless, and the inha-
bitants believed not. When the Sfakians and Rhizites
learnt this, they exclaimed, " Ah, so it was when Christ
himself preached: the plain and simple peasants believed,
but the great and the learned17, the Pharisees, believed
not."
May 6.
We must now leave the modern inhabitants of these
mountains, to examine the remains left of a city built
by their ancestors. An ascent of a few minutes up the
rocky elevation at the foot of which the hamlet of Rhi'za
is built, brings us to the site of the ancient city, from
which we see alone: the southern coast as far as the
projecting point of Mesara. Franko-kastello, the scene
of Khadji Mikhali's fatal contest, and of his death, is
about twelve miles off: the white-washed church of the
Panaghfa, just by the castle, is a very distinct object:
14 Euraji'a. 15 'Ekoik>)V6is.
18 Similar effects were produced in Italy, in 1399, by the preaching of the
White Penitents. " Every one pardoned his neighbour, and dismissed the
recollection of past offences. Enmities which no ordinary means could have
reconciled were put asleep. It was a festivity of general reconciliation.
Ambuscades, assassinations, and all other crimes were for the season sus-
pended." See the note already referred to, and contained in the 3d vol. of
the History of the Church, by my learned friend Mr Waddisgton ; to
whom I am indebted for the indication of this interesting passage of his
work.
17 01 fieydXoi Kru ypajifiaTtofLCVoi.