AWFUL CRUELTIES
INFLICTED BY SOVIET,
ON RUSSIAN BISHOPS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) LONDON, Eeb. 4. The Christian Protest Movement , has. received a letter from a Russian orthodox Bishop, endoising the cam- „ paign against religious persecution in Russia, and instancing, cruelties inflicted on Russian ..Priests including (Father Nectarius belonging to. Moscow’. He was beaten and dragged by the feet, his arms and legs broken, wooden nails were driven into his head, and temples, and nails and molten, lead was poured in the mouth in derision of the Eucharist. Finally he was flung into a cauldron of 'boiling water. Nicodemus, Bishop of (Belgorod, was
arrested at Christmas/ beaten and
'stripped and led out naked into the snow, and water poured over him until he was a pillar of ice. Anronious ,Archbishop of Perm, was dragged through the streets of the city, his eyes poked out, and
cheeks'cut 'away causing many of his 1 fldck to Become insane through ter-. " ror. ; ''
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 5
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165AWFUL CRUELTIES Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1930, Page 5
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