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The principal men in the Armenian community at Broosa soon decided to place a select class of boys under his instruction, to be trained for the priest's office, and eight were thus set apart. Before the end of the year both of these teachers gave hopeful evidence of piety. Very interesting cases of conversion occurred at Nicodemia, at the head of the gulf bearing that name. Mr.
From all her journeys and glittering fortunes she had preserved but one thing a stone the sole baggage that accompanied her upon disembarking on the shore of Valencia. It was a fragment from Nicodemia that had miraculously sent forth water for the baptism of Santa Barbara. The notary used to point out this rough, sacred stone inlaid in a baptismal font of Holy Water.
He was a native of Nicodemia, and esteemed one of the most learned men of his age; to him we are indebted for the journal of Nearchus's voyage, an abstract of which has been given.
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