RELIGIOUS FANATICS.
RIOTOUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY. A SPREADING MOVEMENT. Received H, 4.35 p.m. St. Petersburg, April 14. The follow<rs of a fanatical section of the Roman Catholic priesthood at Warsaw and the surrounding country are attacking the churches. They expelled the Catholic clergy from several town; aid villages for refusing to join their movement. Seven were killed and thirty severely wounded in the two latest fights. The fanatics call themselves I 1 M&navites," and already number a hundred and fifty thousand. The authorities do not interfere with them.
- . [A cable received on February 21st, stated that a number of Roman Catholic priests in Poland were reported to be preaching poverty, vegetarianism, the coming of the anti-Christ, and the approaching end of the world. The movement was spreading rapidly in the villages, and the Socialists were said to be utilising the ferment to incite the peasantry against the clergy and the landlords.]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8085, 16 April 1906, Page 3
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151RELIGIOUS FANATICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8085, 16 April 1906, Page 3
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