dialogue in which priest, congregation and even the dead take part and speak of the vanity of this world and the beatitude of Paradise. Friends and relatives give the “last kiss” to the dead man and bury him saying “May your memory be eternal!” The predominant style of the sacred buildings of the Orthodox Church is the Byzantine with variations. Its best and oldest examples are found in certain churches of Athens, Mt. Athos, Trebizond and especially Constantinople. Those of Salonica, too, were fine
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