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== Family traditions ==

Eleni retained several religious practices from her childhood in the Peloponnese. She taught younger members of the Paap family memorized Greek Orthodox prayers and a small number of Greek family phrases. She did not teach them conversational Greek.

After Despina's death, Eleni kept her mother's Greek prayer book. It remained her most important inherited family possession for the rest of her life.

[[Maria Paap]], the daughter of [[Martinos Nikolopoulos]], visited Eleni regularly in Rotterdam. Eleni taught Maria the Greek prayers she remembered and told her about the family's life in the Peloponnese and the events of the 1770 escape. When Eleni died, she left Despina's prayer book to Maria.

Eleni respected Martinos and his religious teachings but, like most of the early family, did not expect the prophecy in the ''[[Book of Paap]]'' to occur literally.