The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

German priest , with a beautiful church They also have ateacher. There are also 120 schismatic houses with theirown churches and priestsIasi: here we have a church in the honor of the HolyVirgin, and a parish, where two priests are living and there are84 Hungarian Catholic houses, in the yard of the titlednoble are living Hungarians, too.In the neighborhood there are many villages where catholicsare residing.Husi: over 80 Hungarian houses without priest becausechurch servants are missing.Cetatea Alba and Babadag some Ragusan catholicmerchants are there.Like that, in these regions of Moldavia there are 15 parishchurches and 1010 catholic houses and 2620 souls (seeMCSMO, page 161, where the number is 26,630). They have amonastery of our order and a bishop in Bacau, a monk as well.About the Rumanian Country1623Targoviste: In his court (in the Prince's one, RaduMihnea) are many catholics we have a monastery and a churchof St. Francis in that town there are 40 catholic houses. We haveanother church, without roof, which once was a cathedral inhonor of St. Margaret.In this country there are six villages by the Danube, where280 Hungarian and Rumanian catholic houses arefound and each has his own church, without a priestIn the past - as it was related to us by very old persons, formore than 120 years, our catholics had many churches, like inthe town called Bucharest, Craiova and Arges, but because ofthe hatered of the schismatic and orthodox people against thecatholics, and because of the wars, the monks had retreated toHungary and Poland. So, with the passing of time, theschismatics had taken posession of those churches, emptyingthem of all goods, even the bells, leaving everything in ruins.The catholics from that time, having no priest, followed theGreek schism the bishop was bishop of Arges (Argensis) andwhich today is in the hands of the schismatic monks. But evenso, there are 30 catholic houses here, without a priest.