THE CONVERSION OF UNITED GREEKS IN POLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 124, 10 September 1875, Page 13

THE CONVERSION OF UNITED GREEKS IN POLAND.

Tub " voluntary " nature of the "conversion of the United Greeks" in the kingdom of Poland, and the " joyous festive celebration of their return to the unity" of the Orthodox Russian religion, will be most appropriately illustrated by reference to a list of the exiled and " interned" united priests, which the Lemberg • Ojczyzna ' publishes. From this list it appears that six have been banished to the interior of Russia; ten "interned" indefinitely (i.e., while they live) in Warsaw; forty-fire interned indefinitely in other places. It deserves to be specially mentioned that two Galicians are to be added to this list, who, separating themselves from their renegade brethren, have remained faithful to their faith and sacred calling! thus increasing the number of " interned" to forty-seven. Moreover, death has released two others from captivity. Of course to this list of sixty-five confessors there ought also to be added the many priests who were able to save themselves from this fate by escaping over the frontier into Galicia, where they have found a temporary shelter. All the little that belonged to them have been confiscated or handed over to the axiostates who have succeeded them.