THE CZAR AS HEAD OF TEE CHURCH.
The Czar, as head of the Russian Church, has the riaht, it is said, to grant absolution forsios. In exceptional cases, his subjects may request him to hear their confession, and absolve them. A short time ago a young man presented himself at the palace, and urgently demaded to see the Emperor for *.his purpose. An audience having been granted, the youth confessed that he had intended to assassinate the Czar. He was the son of an exile in Siberia, and described in the most eloquent language the sufferings to which his mother and sisters were exposed through the enforced absence of the breadwinner, so that finally, exasperated by the bitterness of his fate, be had determined to revenge himself. The Emperor was touched, and granted him his father's pardon, and a cousiderable sum of money. Less than a month later another young man presented himself to confess the same regicidal intention. This time His Majesty was not to be cheated, and said to the penitent, " I absolve you on one condition only; that you repeat to the Chief of the Police the confession you have ju3t made to me."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5490, 21 June 1879, Page 7
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