The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

in the church and with hymn singing.Salcuta: In this village here are more than 15 catholicsouls, they ran away from my diocese, from KlisuraThere are many catholics from the Rumanian Country,figitives from Turkey, but soon nobody will know where theyare. If monks from Bulgaria should have been here, as theywere in Targoviste, it should be their duty to look after themand to take care of their souls. Otherwise, living day by daywith schismatics, and while the old men are dying, all the otherswill turn to schism, as it happened in many places, wherepeople have no priest and no possibility for confession andcommunion."Original version in Italian, G. Calinescu in "Diplomatarium Italicum"II, pages 372-373.58. 1648Marcus Bandinus, Archbishop fromMarcianapolis, Fulfilled the MostComplete Report about the CatholicCommunities from Moldavia,known under the Name of Codex Bandinus""1.Husi: (Hus in the original text) the habitants here areHungarian, and Rumanians, Hungarians are in the majority.They share the leading positions between them: if in one year thejudge is Hungarian, next year a Rumanian will be the judge, sothe leaders are changed alternately. The Hussites until now sangin Hungarian at holy masses and liturgies, what was a badpractice in that time. We arranged this in order to satisfy theneed of the people, that the holy liturgies will be performed inLatin, and before and after the mass the hymns should be sungin Hungarian, to satisfy the devotion of the people.Two years ago, a village on the river Prut had twelveHungarian houses, but because of many difficulties TheHungarian people immigrated to the Tatar land, to the towncalled Csoborcsok, and others to Husi so the region remainedabandoned. catholics are 682, in number they have a Seculipriest called Michael Rabczony.2. Vaslui (Vaslo) had over 300 Hungarian catholic houses,