The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

Galac 13 63 1Kotnár 47 260 1 2 yesMagi 16 120 1Herló 4 16Szucsáva 12 50 2Moldvabánya 44 215 1 yesNémetvásár 17 85 1 yesKarácsonykö 10Szabófalva 45 243 1Tamásfalva 14 63 1Lökösfalva 30 120Dunafalva 38 220Dsidafalva 22 110Román 37 1Forrofalva 64Paskán 5 422Bogdán 20Tatros 22 100 1 yesStánfalva 16 71 1Mánfalva 8 43 1Gorzafalva 3 13Valsake 11 43Lukácsfalva 12 54 1Szalánac 21 122 1So we see that the number of the churches and thenumber of priests most of all are very small, although, thepopulation is relatively large. Bassetti also included in his notethat in those places where there were no priests, there was amember of the village who read from the Bible and remindedpeople of the holidays and the fasts.The people in Moldavia, were constantly writing to eitherthe pope, the king, or to churches asking for Hungarian priests.They did not understand the foreign missionaries and they madeno attempts to make themselves be understood. Confessionstook place in the following way: both the person confessing andthe missionary had a list of sins, and as the missionary listed thenumber of the sins the person had to say yes or no wheather hehad comitted the sin. The missionary then would absolve theperson. After a while many stopped confessing altogether.In 1743, the Voivode of Moldavia invited three Jesuitsto write their history. The Jesuits were shocked to see that there