This  monastery  has  been  burned  and  remodelled  so
many  times  that  little  can  be  left  of  its  original  appear-
ance. Among  its  other  claims  to  interest,  however,  is
a  Byzantine  icon  kept  in  the  church,  said  to  be  none
other  than  that  celebrated  icon  of  the  Shower  of  the  Way
which  I  have  already  mentioned.  The  latter  end  of  this
venerable  work  of  art  is  involved  in  as  great  mystery  as
its  origin.  According  to  the  Greeks  it  was  found  in
Kahrieh  Jami  by  the  Turks  in  1453  and  cut  to  pieces.
Whether  they  admit  the  icon  of  Kahrieh  Jami  to  have
been  the  identical  icon  which  the  emperor  Baldwin
presented  to  St.  Sophia  in  1204,  and  which  the  Venetian
Baho  took  away  by  force  and  put  into  the  church  of
Pantocrator,  now  Zeirek  Kihsseh  Jami,  I  cannot  say.
