The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

34. 1596Description of Transylvania, Moldavia and theRumanian Countries, in the Work Published byGiovanni Botero"in Tirgoviste 22 catholic Saxons, talking German orHungarian. They have two churches Moldavia has 15 townsand many markets and villages inhabited by Hungarians andGermans."Original version in Italian: Giovanni Botero, "Le relationi universali"Venezia, 1596, page 160.35. Rome, 1599Report of the Catholic Bishop of Argesand Bacau, Bernardino Quirini,to the Pope Clement the VIIIthI visited Roman, it has nearly 4000 families, only 25Roman-Catholic families, counting 138 souls, Germansand Hungarians. In this town there are two churches.I also visited Sabaoani and the following villages:Berindesti, Lucacesti, Adjudeni and Luceni, and othersin the neighborhood, where all the inhabitants areHungarian, 300 families, nearly 1400 souls.Learning that in Vaslui there is a Transylvanian man, calledBenedict, who put himself in the parish of these catholicinhabitantsI've also learnt that the orthodox priests baptized again thecatholics who married orthodox women, or who want to livefollowing their rite.I couldn't reach the other towns and villages from Moldavia,where live the other catholicsOnly in 15 towns and 16 villages are Latin catholics, undermy bishopric, in a number of 1691 families and 10,774 souls.Bacau there are 216 catholic families, 1692 souls. Herethey have two churches. In this church I've held the pontifical