The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

.16.8th of December, 1564The Hungarian Mercenaries,Who Served in Moldavia,are witnessing the Capitulationof the Town Suceava in the Year 1563"I, Stanciul, being together day and night with HisHighness Despot as his page, serving him in his house, I'mtelling the truth about everything I have seen and heard there andwhat I know." (Name of the questioned or implied: PetruDevay, Martin Farkas, Petru Szekely, Laurentiu Kis, StefanHorvath, Menhert Balassa, Ioan Sydo, Valentin Nagy, LadislauRadek, Toma Daczo, Simion and Martin Nagy, apprenticeMatias, Nicolae Szabo and Cristofor Polyak).The confessions and witnesses have been given in Hungarian.Rumanian translation by V. Motogna: "Relatiile dintre Moldova si Ardealin veacul al XVIlea", Cluj, 192817. The 5th of December, 1580Report made by the Franciscan Monk JeronimArsengo about his visitsin the Catholic Communitiesin the Rumanian country"Targoviste: (which has) thousand Rumanian orthodoxhouses, 22 Catholic, Saxon houses, 130 people Roman andGerman, Hungarian and Rumanian. They confess that theybelong to the Catholic church, because of lack of priests. Theyhave a Lutheran priest, obliging him to keep the mass in our riteIn that place there are two Catholic churches: one of St.Francis, the monastery has a beautiful garden, the brother livesfrom gifts and with the help of the Lady of Romania. The otherchurch is called St. MariaCampulung: 900 homes, all of them Rumanian, there areSaxon Catholic houses with 400 souls living in, (all togetherthere are 250, it has a Franciscan monastery, mostly in ruins,and another church, in which lives the Lutheran chaplain. Hespeaks German, Hungarian and Rumanian. Even so people are