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FATE OF RELIGIOUS FANATICS. •By Toleeraph—Press Association—OopyilgM (Rec. March 3, 8 p.m.) St. Petersburg, March 3, A monk named Innocentius escaped from the Onega Monastery, where he was exiled owing to his fanatical propaganda. Eight thousand adherents, including women and children, followed in search of the- new Zion, believing Innocentius to bo tho personification of Christ. Bareheaded and singing hymns they marched in snow with tho temperature below zero. All are frost-bitten and starving, and a number died. The Red Cress Society has sent assistance. Innocentius has been arrested at Archangel. 1
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1689, 4 March 1913, Page 5
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96SEARCH FOR NEW ZION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1689, 4 March 1913, Page 5
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