Macedonia, a plea for the primitive . villagesometimes runs through the graveyard, but, to a 178 MACEDONIA nature utterly opposed to all ideas of sanitationand almost equally immune from the diseases whichfollow on the neglect of elementary hygiene, thisis a matter of minor concern. Whether more by virtue of Mohammeds pre-cepts or out of a spirit of neglect, it is certainly truethat there is an entire absence of garishness ina Turkish cemetery. Free from any transientadornment the well-chiselled marbles and oldgrey stones sown among the mountains are oftenvery beautiful and dignified, and the
Macedonia, a plea for the primitive . villagesometimes runs through the graveyard, but, to a 178 MACEDONIA nature utterly opposed to all ideas of sanitationand almost equally immune from the diseases whichfollow on the neglect of elementary hygiene, thisis a matter of minor concern. Whether more by virtue of Mohammeds pre-cepts or out of a spirit of neglect, it is certainly truethat there is an entire absence of garishness ina Turkish cemetery. Free from any transientadornment the well-chiselled marbles and oldgrey stones sown among the mountains are oftenvery beautiful and dignified, and the graves havean air of solemn simplicity which is more appro-priate than our own crude glass cases, artificialflowers and general aspect of cheap over-ornamentation. Nature may in due time obliterateall trace of her creatures who die in the wild, butshe does it with such dignity and tenderness thatthe departed are often more honoured by theoblivion laid on them, than by the memory we,by artificial , so crudely try to ?z o c - y. r. c < . CHAPTER XIII THE GREEK CHURCH THE Greek church as at present con-stituted, was founded by the RomanByzantine emperor, Constantine theGreat who, having been converted toChristianity in 312, lent his support to theorthodox bishops at a great Christian councilat Nicaea (Nice) in the same year. His baptismby Eusebius shortly before his death in 337,set the seal on his faith and confirmed the estab-lishment of the orthodox church in the Byzantinekingdom. The outcome of the adoption of theChristian religion by the empire was the erection,in the sixth century, of the magnificent church,known as St. Sophia, at Constantinople—thecity which was built on the ruins of Byzantiumand to which Constantine gave his name. Byconcentrating all their art and skill on the interiorrather than the exterior, the Romans of thatperiod, under Justinian, established a principlewhich has been closely followed by the architectsof more modern t
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