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its disappearance."Original version in Latin: Hasdeu, "Documente", page 31840. Rome, The Summer of the Year, 1623Report of the Franciscan Missionary AndreiBogoslavic to the Holy CongregationBacau: here is a monastery for our monks, with a church inhonor of St. Francis, there lives with other monks the bishop ofBacau, a monk in our order. Here are over hundredHungarian houses, but all very poor.Another hundred houses belong to the schismaticGreeks, having a church and an orthodox priest.Out of the city there are two villages, belonging to themonastery and converted into a bishopric, with 86 HungarianCatholic houses.In that province there is a town called Trotus, at the foot ofthe Transylvanian Mountains,. There are some more schismaticand Lutherans. Close to this town is a village with 28 housesbut they have no priestRoman: here are 72 Hungarian catholic houses andthey have a church in the honor of Apostle St. Peter, they havea priest, who speaks more Rumanian, than any other language.Another 200 houses of schismatic, very close are fourvillages with about 60 catholic houses, the others are allschismatic.Suceava. There we have two churches, one in the honor ofthe Holy Trinity which belonged once to the Dominicanmonks' one, there are 68 Hungarian houses, six very wellsituated and they have a priest, and a church, which is very wellkept. All the others are schismatics, and some of themLutherans.Close to this town are two others, Piatra and Siret, wherethere are 84 Hungarian and Saxon houses and they alsohave a church and a priest, other 200 houses belong to theschismatics and to the Lutherans, some to Arians andgypsies..Cotnari: here are 260 Hungarian, Saxon andRumanian Catholic houses, they have a Hungarian and