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Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494. trans. Mary Margaret Newett. Manchester: The University Press, 1907
NOTE 87. (Примечание 87 к главе XIII) The Christian Sects, whom Casola found in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, were nine in number:--The Latins, Georgians, Armenians, Abyssinians, Syrians, Maronites, Golbites, Jacobites, and Copts. Francesco Suriano gives a good deal of interesting information on the subject in the various texts of his Trattato di Terra Santa. In the first text written in 1485 Soriano mentions eight christian sects living at that time in the Holy Sepulchre:--The Latin Friars or Franks, Greeks, Georgians, Armenians, Abyssinians or Indians, Jacobites, Syrians and Maronites. He mention the Copts, but says that they were not then there permanently. In chapter xxiii., p. 64, of the text revised in 1514, Fra Francesco wrote:--"In the afore-named Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ten kinds of religious, christians of different nations live. All celebrate divine service according to their own rite, and all have their habitations--separate one from the other--within the body of the church. They are the following:--The first are our friars, who are called Franks; the second are the Maronites, who are orthodox Catholics; the third are the Greeks; the fourth are the Georgians; the fifth are the Abyssinians, that is Indians; the sixth are the Copts; the seventh are the Jacobites; the eighth are the Syrians, that is the Christians of the girdle; the ninth are the Armenians; the tenth are the Nestorians." In the printed edition of the Trattato (Venice, 1524) Suriano adds that the Nestorians were not continually in Jerusalem. Commenting on these various bodies, Suriano observes that the Maronites "Are very placable, polite and pleasant to deal with. They are descended from the Italians." That the Greeks "are cursed," and "our worst and most atrocious enemies." The Georgians "are abominable heretics, like to the Greeks and equal to them in malice." The Armenians "are handsome people, rich and generous." The Abyssinians "are vassals of Prete Jane who reigns in Ethiopia, which is eleven months of day's journeys from Jerusalem. This Signor Prete Jane is a christian and has seventy-two -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1, See p. 179 of Le Voyage de la Terre Saincte, compose par Maitre Denis Possot, et acheve per Messire Charles Philippe seigneur de Champarmoy et de Grandchamp, 1532. Published, with notes, by Charles Schefer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- crowned Kings under his dominion . . . . The men and women dress badly; they are very slippery, lascivious, and carnal people . . . . They are extremely fond of the Franks and especially of us friars . . . . They are abominable heretics, adherents of the Jacobites." The Jacobites "love the Franks greatly, and especially us minor friars. They hate the Greeks, and every other sect except the Abyssinians who have adhered to their heresies . . . . These Jacobites use singing and music in their services in this way. They hold in the hand a piece of thin polished iron, and strike on it with a little hammer, harmonising the blows and the words." With regard to the Copts he remarked :"As the Copts had left Jerusalem when I was there and gone to Cairo, I had no opportunity of talking to them, and so I cannot describe their abominable customs and rites as I have done in the case of the others. But to conclude, I can liken them to the other heretics and putrid members cut off from the most Holy Roman Church. The Copts are fewest in number of all the sects in Jerusalem, and as they are few, when the sons of their priests are born, they make them deacons and sub-deacons, and when it is necessary to chant the Epistle and Gospel, the fathers chant them in the name of their sons, holding the aforesaid infants in their arms the while." http://faculty.colostate-pueblo.edu/beatrice.spade/seminar97/casola/cas7.htm
Т.е. на рубеже 15-16 веков упоминается пресвитер Иоанн (абиссинцы его вассалы), царствующий в Эфиопии, до которой дневными переходами добираться 11 месяцев от Иерусалима! И в подчинении у него аж 72 короля. ФиН считают, что поп Иван правил в России. Здесь говорится, что абиссинцы близки к яковитам, современные эфиопская и сирийская церкви тоже имеют нечто общее (миафизитство), выходит, и древнее православие было близко к этим церквям? Кстати, про российских паломников не говорится, но должны же они быть там?
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