RUSSIAN CHURCHES
TREASURIES RAIDED BY SOVIET'
PATRIARCH’S MALEDICTION IGNORED.
Press -Aiwocktion—By Telegraph—Copyright,
ROME, May 13,
The Pope's intervention at Genoa is connected with the Soviet's wholesale looting of Russian churches and' monasteries. Catholic as well as Orthodox buildings suffering. After the Soviet had used up two milliards of roubles, which wore taken Horn the gold reserve and used for revolutionary propaganda abroad, tho Government iffeided to raid tho treasuries of (be churches. Dedicatory jewels from the ikons wore fold abroad, the precious metal being melted down by the people’s cornmissionaries. Systematically they visited every '.own and village in (ho collection of many tons of gold and silver. Tims 220 milliard roubles of silver were Collected.
rim people in some* of the towns. Including Smolensk, supported by (he clergy, opposed the plundering, and riots fo:lowed. There were a. number of casualties elsewhere. The Bolsheviks called 1 a meeting of workmen, and explained that the, necessity ior these confiscations was due to the famine, and the workmen then ,sor to work themselves, rilling churches and monasteries.
live days’ work in Krasniapresna. resulted m five tons of silver and much gold being collected from fifty-one churches. The. Patriarch issued a malediction upon -a,, I,but it had no Jesuit.—A. and N.Z. Cable,
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Evening Star, Issue 17968, 15 May 1922, Page 4
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