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Lady of the foreigners
Our story begins in the years of the Turkish occupation
happened something that looks like a fairy tale,
but believe me it's a true story. Everything started
in a small mountainous village, the Hioniades in
Epirus and will finish in Tinos Island. ...Cosmas
put the icon of Santa Maria inside his bundle and
started. It took him three days to reach the port...
Just two streets before reaching the port his ear
caught conversations of the passing people and realized
that the big ship he could see in the port from
high above was a commercial one and it was the last
day that the captain was looking for men to hire
as sailors. Just one lane before reaching the port
he realized also that the ship was a Turkish one
as well as its crew. What should he do? He knew
well enough the Turkish language, for them to be
suspicious of him of not being a Turk. So, he went
in a corner of the street behind a hut, he opened
his bundle to change clothes to look like a poor
Turk. ...
Outside the ship on the mole was sitting on a chair
the old captain and ship owner. And he got a job
as a sailor thear... After long trir the ship was
in danger in a storm ... The old ship owner every
now and then was counting his sailors from the prow
to the stern to be sure that nobody was taken by
the waves. At some instant counting he was missing
one. It was Imbraheem, i.e. Cosmas. He looked uneasy
at the stormy sea, but he couldn't see anything.
He called the second in command to hold the tiller
in his place and started searching the ship. Finally
he went to the hold. Complete darkness and suddenly
he stumbled on something. A crumpled body, it was
Imbraheem bending over the icon of the Blessed Virgin.
The old captain got confused and was furious. He
took his yataghan (cutlass) and lifted it up to
cut off his head...
And ... although seems like fairy tale believe me
it true story written in the island on Tinos
Writen by MARINA PETRI
Illystrated dy MARINA PETRI
page . 32 .
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