[1053] Matthew xviii. 18.
[1054] John xx. 23.
[1056] The word μνημόσυνα, which I have rendered with verbal correctness ‘memorial services,’ really implies more, and corresponds to a mass for the repose of the dead.
[1057] Anastasius Sinaita, in Migne’s Patrologia Gr.-Lat., vol. 89, 279–280.
[1058] i.e. the πνευματικοί, as they were called, the more discreet and ‘spiritual’ priests who alone were authorised by their bishops to discharge this function. Cf. Christophorus Angelus, op. cit. cap. 22.
[1059] Κωνστ. Κανελλάκης, Χιακὰ Ἀνάλεκτα, pp. 335 and 339.
[1060] On this symbol see above, pp. [112] f.
[1061] Newton, Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, I. p. 212 (1865). (Cf. B. Schmidt, das Volksleben, p. 164.)
[1062] Cf. Christophorus Angelus, op. cit. cap. 25 (init.).