Peasant life in the Holy Land . may be, and,indeed, not infrequently is, not in full Orders, andconsequently ecclesiastically inferior to the menover whom he rules. The Greek clergy, unlike those of the RomanChurch and of the so-called Catholic branches ofthe Oriental Churches, are allowed to marry, butshould a priests wife predecease him he is notpermitted to marry again. The monks must allbe celibates, and also the higher clergy. The incomes of the village priests are small, andthey receive them but irregularly. Their salaries,such as they are, are paid by the Patriarch inwhose province they
Peasant life in the Holy Land . may be, and,indeed, not infrequently is, not in full Orders, andconsequently ecclesiastically inferior to the menover whom he rules. The Greek clergy, unlike those of the RomanChurch and of the so-called Catholic branches ofthe Oriental Churches, are allowed to marry, butshould a priests wife predecease him he is notpermitted to marry again. The monks must allbe celibates, and also the higher clergy. The incomes of the village priests are small, andthey receive them but irregularly. Their salaries,such as they are, are paid by the Patriarch inwhose province they live, out of the revenue ofthe patriarchate, these revenues in the case ofthe Jerusalem patriarchate, which includes allPalestine, being very large. One priest, withwhom I am personally acquainted, has a salary ofeighteen shillings a month, which would be anaverage stipend in a small village; in the largervillages they receive proportionally more. Thisparticular priest, as is often the case, lives in his ^*^^i^ P^f ?iM^^^^^. IS* _^i,*««*» ??? _ _ .
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