Note 9 — An Account of a journey round the ancient Ionia, from Smyrna, thro St. George’s, Magnesia, Durguthli, Sardis, Birghée, Tyria, Ephesus, and back to Smyrna, in the year MDCXCIX.
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To such as are not conceiv’d always worthy, or ready to communicate, the Greeks after the celebration of their Liturgy distribute the ἀντίδωρον, or bread barely blessed, but not consecrated; which they conceive to be a symbol of the body of the Virgin Mary, and to be given instead of that of Christ.