Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-10
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BULGAR|ANS MOURN
DEATH Of JOSEPH |
Exarch Of Their Church Died in
Sophia, July 3. Father Nackoff
to Conduct Requiem

Requiem services for His Beatitude,
Bulgarian Exarch. Joseph 1, who died
in Sophia, Bulgaria, July 8, will be
held tomorrow in St. Annunciation
Bulgarian Orthodox church, Front
and Franklin street. The Rev. Arch
priest David Nackoff, will officiate. M.
Paneretoff, Bulgarian minister to the
United States, and the entire Bull
garian legation at Washington have
been invited to be present.
The following sketch of the life and
work of Exarch Joseph 1 has been
prepared by the Rev. Father Nackoff:
Last Saturday. July 3, gave up his
ghost, His Beatitude, Bulgarian
Exarch Joseph I, in Sophia. the cap
ital of Bulgaria. The funeral of the
deceased, according to telegram re-
ceived at the Bulgarian legation in
Washington. d. c., was held in Sophia
on July in the presence of the fif-
teen Bulgarian archbishops, and the
whole diplomatical world. Sunday,
the soul of the deceased, will be per-
formed in the Bulgarian Orthodox
church, ST. Annunciation, in Steelton.
From the rector of the church, Rev.
Archpriest David Nackoff, all the Bull
garians from Bulgaria as we'll as
those from Macedonia, living in Steel
ton, Harrisburg and Middletown, will
be present and the plenipotantiary
minister of the Bulgarian kingdom in
Washington, D. c., Mr.. Panuretoff,
with the staff of the legation, the Rev.
Archpriest David Nackoff, from the
name of the members of the church
Geographically will express their
hearty sympathy to the Bulgarian Holy
Synod (of which the deceased was
president), and the Bulgarian Govern
ment in Sophia, for the valuable serv-
ices lost in the death of the Exarch.
His Beatitude, the EXarch, was the
head of the Bulgarian Orthodox
church and from 1877 till his death,
remained on the exarchial throne in
directing the destinies of the Bulgarian
people in Turkey, which by the caprice
of the destiny had to live in slavery
under the Turkish yoke.
I'm the hardest and most critical
periods in Turkish sovereignty he
knew how to keep his people from
assimilation and to turn aside the
tors to the young Bulgarian people.
Thanks to his diplomatical abilities,
the Bulgarian people only, which till
before 40 years were forced to attend
the Greek churches and schools, and
worship God in the Greek language,
uninteligible for them, was provided
with churches and schools in which
their own language.
HE lived (3 years ago) to see the
cross hammered in, in the suburbs OF
Constantinople, from the brave Bull
garian army, which was ready to enter
it. and finish the cultural mission of
Christian Europe-drive the Moham-
medians out of Europe. But in the
last moment, when the good under
standing among the Balkan allies gave
way before jealousy and spite, came
the second Balkan war, which ended
with the famous Bucharest treaty, by
which the whole exarchial territory
was given to the Serbians. Greeks and
Turks. The Bulgarian Exarch with
broken heart and deeply touched from
the national sorrows, and with ruined
health was forced by the Turks to
leave his residence in Constantinople
and go to Sophia, where till the last
moment, he participated in the Gov
ernment affairs.
with his death Bulgaria and her
people have lost a true religious
Exarch, wise and intelligent states
man and patriot.
AT the requiem tomorrow the Rev
Archpriest D. Nackoff, who was per.
sonally acquainted with the deceased
| Exarch, will deliver religious SER
mon, portraying the character and
biography of the deceased.
After that the mourning procession
| will he held