. The Burton Holmes lectures;. GRECIAN JOURNEYS 219. THE CHAPEL IN THE GREAT CAVE ground, and then, when they have been ahnost forgotten,another generation, to make room for future dead in thesmall cemetery, exhumes their bones, and ranges their grin-ning skulls around the walls of a small chapel where all theformer inmates of the convent have found a final resting-place. Here, all identities are lost, the bones of medievalmonks being mingled with bones of those of later look into an unclosed grave of unknown depth. Fardown at the very bottom of this common trench theredoubtless l
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. GRECIAN JOURNEYS 219. THE CHAPEL IN THE GREAT CAVE ground, and then, when they have been ahnost forgotten,another generation, to make room for future dead in thesmall cemetery, exhumes their bones, and ranges their grin-ning skulls around the walls of a small chapel where all theformer inmates of the convent have found a final resting-place. Here, all identities are lost, the bones of medievalmonks being mingled with bones of those of later look into an unclosed grave of unknown depth. Fardown at the very bottom of this common trench theredoubtless lie the bones of the two holy men who foundedMegaspeleon, who <l\wlt in the great ca\e before these medi-eval structures were erected. The legend runs that m the 220 GRECIAN JOURNEYS fourth century after Christ, a shepherdess discovered in acavern, hollowed by nature in this wall of rock, an imageof the Virgin and the Holy Child. This she instantly recog-nized as the handiwork of St. Luke. Two holy men, Theo-doros and Simeone, then made a chapel
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