Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20
FIERCE RELIGIOUS PROSECUTIONS
UNDER RUSSIA'S RULE.
Their Churches
Converted

4 sets Of sacred vessels for saying mass.
| The priest would wear a peasant
| blouse and a narrow ribbon sole In
place OF vestments An account of
| their adventures would I'LL a book.
Sometimes they were mysteriously
done away with whilst tramping from
one village to another. At others the
police tracked them down and flung
them into the citadel at Warsaw. and
they we're not heard of again They
circulated leaflets among the people
telling them how to baptize their chill
dren and assist tho dying when no
priest was near. Jews often used 70
distribute these leaflets among the
peasants because they knew their way
about the country COmmunes better
than anybody else and did not arouse
the suspicion Of the orthodox clergy. or
the police Couples who could AFFORD
TO 20 abroad got married in Cracow,
an Austrian city; those who could not
were married by chance priest in
disguise. or much more often. had their
unions blessed by the village elders.
None Of these marriages were recog-
nized by the state. which branded the
offspring as Legitimate.
Not long ago a great sensation was
created In Russia's parliament by
Mr.. Bryszkos. who produced his pass
port in the tribune and complained
that he was therein described as
bachelor, though he was married
/ man with family. During the worst
phase of the prosecutions he had been
married, quite legally. in Cracow,
But the state considered that, living
in the Chelm country he ought TO
have gone to an orthodox priest
and has refused to recognize his mar
riage to this day Those who declined
to have their children baptized In the
orthodox churches we're often utterly
Il l..
ders to seize and sell of every article
the unfortunate family possessed. This
resulted in many cases OF self-inficted
martyrdom. Men who refused TO take
the oath OF allegiance to the car
IN Greek and offered to do so in Ro-
man Catholic churches were thrown
into prison.
PROTESTS TO ROME.
These PEASANTS protested in many
ways, but In vain they sent petit
ton to the foreign consuls serving In
Poland, giving a heart-rending ac-
count OF their troubles and begging
for foreign intervention on their he
half Vast crowds determined to sec
the papul Nuncio, Cardinal Vanutelli.
when I'D passed through their coun-
try. The police. hearing OF their prof.
eCt, tried TO stop Il by putting "a
Gordon OF soldiers near every station
the cdrllnaIS train was TO stop AT
and thus preventing anybody from get
ting near him. But the engine-driver
stopped OF his own accord n few miles
from one Of the stations and thus en-
ablod some peasants TO give an ac-
count Of their woes 10 his eminence.
who wept az he listened TO them. The
authorities arranged that he should
return by another route, and Rome's
protests were unable 20 stop the per-
secutions 4 man who went TO Rome
70 plead the Uniats' cause AZ the vat
lean, was thrown into prison on his re-
turn 20 Russia. Fines equivalent 20
$50 were imposed on rniAt peasants
who chopped wood. weeded their gar
dens or mended roofs on any Of the
81 orthodox holidays of tho Greek
church Dissenting railway employees
said school teachers were dismissed
from situations without a word OF
warning. Many women. married ac-
cording 20 the rites Of the Roman
Catholic church. were torn from hus-
hand and children. sent back to their
native villages. labeled as 'wantons-
and as such placed under police SUPER
vision.
HARDLY IN LINE.
Euloginz. orthodox bishop OF Chelm,
who represents this town In the Rus
sian parliament, declared In recent
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