THE NEW ZION.
A FANATIC MONK AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) St, Petersburg, March 3. The Monk Innocentius, who escaped from tho Onega Monastery, where he was exiled, has started a fanatical propoganda. He has 8000 adherents, including women and children, who followed him in search of tho New Zion, believing that Innocentius was Urn personification of Christ. Bareheaded and singing hymns, they marched through tiro snow, with the temperature below zero. All were frostbitten and starving, and a number have died. The Rod Cross Society sent assistance. Innocentius has been arrested at Archangel.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 53, 4 March 1913, Page 8
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98THE NEW ZION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 53, 4 March 1913, Page 8
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