Sketches of the Rites and Customs

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Excerpt from Sketches of the Rites and Customs: Of the Greco-Russian Church The scenes which are offered to the public in the following chapters intended to illustrate the actual working of the Greco-Sclavonic Church in Russia. They are collected by an English lady married to a Russian officer, and stationed in one of those remote provinces which have no attractions to invite the tourist, and thus are scarcely known to ordinary readers, except by name, while the national habits are there best preserved in their full peculiarity, unaltered by foreign influences. In the memory of many of us, the Greek Church was almost ignored. There were numerous persons who divided Christendom into Protestants and Roman Catholics, and supposed all the former to hold the truth, all the latter to be in error, and if the existence of Eastern Christians was pressed on them would have classed them as a more ignorant and debased species of Roman Catholics. Clearer knowledge has, however, dawned on us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.