The present excerpt, from the work of Alexandros Papadiamantis At Christ’s Castle (specifically the section “Cries and Torches in the Night”), describes a night-time scene in which a church service is suddenly interrupted by cries of distress coming from the sea. The voices belong to shipwrecked sailors at Mikros Gialos, near the rocks of Kouroupi, where a vessel appears to have run aground amid the darkness of the night and the falling snow.

The congregation rushes outside, while the priest and the chanter initially remain inside the church. A group of men, led by the ferryman Stefanis, take up torches and lanterns and set off on the difficult and dangerous descent to aid those in peril, while the rest illuminate the area by throwing branches onto the fire. The spontaneous charity of the people is highlighted as the driving force behind their immediate response.

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