A FANATIC MONK.
LEADS HIS FOLLOWERS TO DEATH. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received 3, 8 p.m. St. Petersburg, March 3. The Monk rnnoeentius, who escaped from the Onega Monastery, where he was exiled, has started a fanatical propaganda. He has 8000 adherents, including women and children, who followed him in search of the Xew Zion, believing that Innocentius was the personification of Christ. Bare-headed and singing hymns, they inarched through the snow, with the temperature below zero. All were frost-bitten and starving, and a number have died. The Red Cross Society sent assistance, lnnocentius lifts been arrested at Archangel.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 243, 4 March 1913, Page 5
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99A FANATIC MONK. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 243, 4 March 1913, Page 5
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