Ayia Napa

 ...This like all which I have seen in Cyprus , was almost destroyed , partly by the usual tyranny of the Turks , partly through the great pestilence which had wasted the island a few years before , killing most of its inhabitants ...There is a large quadrangle with rooms round it , the church being on the left as you enter , reached by many steps , as well as the underground chapel which is formed out of the very grotto in which the sacred image was found . A Papas or Greek priest takes care of the church , and officiates in it , and there are certain Calogrie or Nuns who have abandoned the world and devoted themselves to the service of God : they are decently clad in black , but they are not cloistered ....