The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

"There are many catholics in Moldavia, even more,villages full of Hungarian catholics and although they are notnoble, they are good Christians and you feel sorry when you seethem so badly directed. Although our missionaries are not verygood in their principles, these believers are not concerned withtheir bad behavior, they honor them and listen to them more thanto their own master.Our missionaries have no monasteries, but they livedispersed in the mirenians' houses and in their own, withwomen and familyTo end these disorders, this order should persue for goodthe cleaning of the Moldavians' soul from any bad memoriesand opinions caused by these missionaries, and then sendmissionaries from another order, with a better example for lifelike the Jesuits, who should educate people for God throughtheir schools, or Trinitarian Fathers.To find this secular head I consider that in Moldavia there isnobody able to do this job, the catholics are people of a middleclass or lower, and most of them are peasants. In Transylvania,the well known catholics are two: Count Apor and CountMikes."Original version in Italian published by I. C. Filitti,"Un raport catolic despre Moldova la sfirsitul sec. al XVII-lea" in "Revista istorica", 192688. 1688Relations about the Actual Spiritual Stateof the Rumanian Country, Brought by ourFather Giovanni Battista del Monte,Who Has Been Missionary for22 Years in those Places."Bucharest; the catholic inhabitants from the town are up to20 families, but there are many soldiers in the court of thePrince and more nobles and secretaries who speak the Polishand Hungarian languages, and a good number of catholics.Campulung: there is a church of the Order of St. Maria,having over 60 catholic families, served by two reformedFranciscans and a little further there is another village, alsoHungarian catholics, belonging to the same church