The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

This is what he answered: "They are not one nation since theirspeech, clothing differs from village to village, their number issmall and, I believe, they were Hungarianized by the priests inMoldavia." This was a theory taught by the Rumanians who,we know have distorted quite a bit of their history. They teachthat the Hungarians in Romania are Rumanians but wereHungarianized.With this statement they legalize all that they are doing to theHungarians.In the seminary of Bakó, students speaking Hungarianare not really admitted, the priests there prefer students fromvillages where Hungarian is no longer spoken and the trace oftheir being a Csángó, can only be detected in theirpronounciation of the letter "s". In Bakó, after one of themasses, the priest asked money from the people to help the poorChinese who were living under bad conditions. The priestasked for 250 lejs from those who wanted to help and 500 lejsfrom those who also wanted to have a picture of the person theywere helping. Many of the Hungarians helped, even though,they were just as abandoned and in trouble as the Chinese.Pál Péter Domokos, also received a letter from one of thevillages, where two young boys wanted to become priests. Thevillage did not want to send the boys to Bucarest or Iassi wherethere are seminaries, because they were afraid that there, amongthe Rumanians, they would forget their mother tongue. As theCsángós are in need of Hungarian priests they did not wantthese boys to become Rumanian priests so they asked the help ofPál Péter Domokos to send these boys to a Hungarianseminary.The clothing of the Csángós are all made by the women.The designs of these clothes not only betray the village wherethe person wearing it comes from but, also wheather the personis a young girl, a bride, a woman with children, or an oldwoman. When the girls marry, a wooden circle is braided intheir hair and on that a shawl is placed which can never be takenoff.In the church of Dioszin, there is a legend about a crosswhich was carved by a man who after finishing it took it to thepriests for him to bless it, he, seeing the primitive cross said thatif this was what Jesus looked like he would rather not be saved.On hearing this, the man gave the priest 20 lejs and only then,did he bless the cross which is still in the church today.