This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...George), of which the Superior is the Archimandrite Basileus. It is the only general asylum in Palestine for lunatics, with the exception of a Russian and a Jewish institution, outside the city walls, on the Jaffa Road. This asylum was provided in 1912 by the Patriarch with eleven new rooms built close to the Church ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...George), of which the Superior is the Archimandrite Basileus. It is the only general asylum in Palestine for lunatics, with the exception of a Russian and a Jewish institution, outside the city walls, on the Jaffa Road. This asylum was provided in 1912 by the Patriarch with eleven new rooms built close to the Church and Dispensary. Not only Christian, but Muslim lunatics are treated by the Greek staff, for the Muslims believe in MSr Jirjis and his miraculous powers as firmly as the "Orthodox." This is why the dedication of St. George (reoipyios) so frequently occurs all over Turkey. "The chain with which patients are bound to a pillar in the Church at El-Kh6dr is, perhaps, that which was shown to Felix Fabri in the fifteenth century as the chain with which St. George had been bound. Brother Felix narrates that he and his companions put it rouncl their necks out of devotion. It is (or was when I last saw it) still fastened by means of a large ring round the neck of the sufferer. "In monasteries where the Christians vow to Elijah or to St. George, there the Muslims vow to the mysterious Kh6dr, the ever green or ever living one, whom they identify with both. At the Muslim Shrines of the Kh6dr, Christians invoke St. George." 1 The late Dr. Chaplin, of Jerusalem, testified to the cures wrought at Mar Jirjis, probably from shock. The reader may like to read of a case in Elijah's Cave on Mount Carmel, recorded by Dr. Chaplin, in his interesting Note on "Orders of Holy Men in Jerusalem," Quarterly Statement, P.E.F., January, 1894, pp. 36-7. 1 The Religions of Modern Syria and Palestine, by Dr. Bliss, p. 10. New York, 1912. Since Dr. Bliss wrote this paragraph the chain has been removed from inside the newly-restored fifteenth-cent...
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