The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

FOREWORDPublishing this book, some very precise notes are neededabout the nature of this publication and about the HungarianCsangos living in Moldavia. These points can be expressedsynthetically, as follows: clarity, concision, truth, cohabiting,critical attitude and chronology.1. Clarity. An engineer from Bacau confessed to me, thatuntil recently, both he and his friends, Moldavian catholics,lived in darkness about the real history of the Csangos, which isalso their provenance. However, since he started to research theearlier and later past of Moldavian catholics on the basis ofauthentical sources, his mind became enlightened and felt hecould find out the truth.As many others, I was satisfied for a long time with what welearnt in school. From time to time, I've read some books,which seemed to be sensational, or enlightening, but I did thataccidentally. The curiosity and will to find out the truth and tothrow real light on the past with its acute present implicationsgave me the strength to pick up in one single sweep the sourcesabout the origin of my people's history. People, who have beenliving on the sites of Moldavia from the XIIIth century, as it ismentioned in historical documents.I want to know the life of my ancestors - I was tellingmyself. There were some question marks, which bothers in anatural way any human being, who has the thirst for truth andthe will of coming out into the spotlight. From where are myancestors coming? When, how and why did they come here, toMoldavia? How did they live? What kind of sufferings did theyendure? Which were their historical traditions, what kind ofculture did they have, and passed on from generation togeneration? What language did they speak? What is the reasonwhy we, Hungarian Csangos from Moldavia don't have anywriters, poets, famous personalities? Did we have at least onespiritual leader, coming from the Hungarian catholics fromMoldavia? Or, maybe, these leaders belonged to another nation,or maybe, another religion? How did our ancestors live together