The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

priests to their own people.In this catholic town there is another church, but its roof hasfallen down and also the gallery, only the walls are remaining.It was built in the honor of St.Elisabeth, the Queen of Hungary,(the daughter of King Andrew the second, beatified in 1235)and the monastery, together with the church belongs to theFranciscan monks, the oldest ones came to me, asking me tobless them, telling me: "We wanted to pray that you wouldcome out in the city dressed in your pontifical robes, thatRumanians could see it, because they despise us in our belief,saying that our religion is worse than that of the others and ourlaw being the worst of all."These catholics are different from the Rumanians, becausetheir women wear other kind of dresses and they make bread ina different way, better and whiter, in another shape.Arges: in this town lived catholics from the same nation(Saxon) and step by step, being without priest, they becameheretics and schismatics All these towns are near the mountainsand the Hungarian border, and because they came from thoseregions, they long for that country.Targoviste: in this town there is a church and the Franciscanmonastery, in the honor of Our Lady, it is 20 feet long and 10feet wideIt is said that they were Franciscan monks, from Hungaryand Dominican monks as well, and I remember the time, whenthose from Bulgaria lived here, being now monastic Minoritefathers. In this locality there are nearly a hundred catholic souls,who take communion. All of them are in the employ of theruler, some are soldiers, others are merchants. They are fromdifferent nations: Polish, Hungarians, Slavs, Serbians andothersNear the marketplace there is another church,big andbeautiful, which belongs to our catholics, in the honor of St.Francis. But it is ruined, it has only the walls standing. It islonger than 40 feet and wider than 14 feet, it has hugewindows, made of white stone, having the cross-form and a bigbell-tower, like a fortress There are over 4,000 houses ofschismatics, which means over 20,000 souls of differentnations.Bucharest: the catholics have a church, built up by a fewmerchants, there are two catholic families, 10 souls in all."