The hands of the new priest are then bound together and oiled, and he is made to stand outside of the church, when the congregation come, and, kissing his hands, put their paras[1] on a plate, which is near by to receive them.

The priest is then imprisoned forty days in the church, with the cuffs of his sleeves and his trousers sewed close to his limbs.

In this condition, he is not allowed to brush off an insect, or to relieve his body from any unpleasant sensation whatever.

He cannot change his clothes during the whole time, and his food is of the coarsest quality.

His wife passes through a similar ordeal at home." [1] About a mill of our money.
Considerable annoyance was felt, about this time, growing out of the efforts of an Armenian, named Garabed, to form a church at Diarbekir, which should admit persons to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper without requiring evidence of piety, and baptize the children of any who might desire it.