'THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE' 



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Photograph by Fred Boissonnas 



IN THE BFXIv TOWER OF" THE MOST IMPORTANT MONASTERY IN GREECE 



The Convent of Megaspelaeon, near the rack-and-pinion railway, which runs south from 

 the Gulf of Corinth up the valley of the tiny Erasinos River, is situated in a vaulted cave. 

 There are now only about 140 monks and the income has shrunk to a mere fraction of its 

 former two million francs a year. The monks do not, as in many other convents, hold all their 

 property in common, but each has his own revenue from lands and houses, some of which 

 formerly were in Smyrna and Constantinople. 



