ST. SOPHIA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 2

ST. SOPHIA.

In the course of a pen-picture of Constantinople, Grace Ellison, author ot '-An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem," writes:. "St. Sophia as a mosaue is to me like a bad translation. There is still the Mosaique of the Holy Mother wnich neither fire nor paint can efface' and the cross is* so deeply rooted irto the building that it could only disappear with the building itself How soon now will this mosoue be a church again i 1 How soon will a priest come through the little door which he. never been opened—so the legend has it—since the day the priest fled with the chalice and the Holy Book when the invading army entered the church. 4t 1 \ e, y ' some da-v> they. tell one that Mass will be, continued" from the place where tne priest left off. Is that cay coming soon?"