BIBLE IN R
The first public readin ■ in the Romany language, ' village of Prixlaka, near Slavonia recently, led to t ;. followed by ecstatic dancing ? The little church was beaut ■■ corated with flowers for the oc. A remarkable legend aboutl church exists among these gipsies. Hundreds of years ago, they say, the. had a fine marble church, but they bartered it to the Romans for one made of white cheese. This they ate, and so remained without a church until recent years, when Chedomir Nikolitch. a Privlaka gipsy, who made a fortune by fiddling, gave it to build the present one.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 5
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