This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...four hours after sundown about 80 Commitadjis beseiged the village Suodol, the centre of five other Orthodox villages, in which everyone is devoted to the Orthodox Church, and has long resisted the Exarchate. The inhabitants of the village returned the fire with sporting guns, and obliged the Commitadjis to raise the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...four hours after sundown about 80 Commitadjis beseiged the village Suodol, the centre of five other Orthodox villages, in which everyone is devoted to the Orthodox Church, and has long resisted the Exarchate. The inhabitants of the village returned the fire with sporting guns, and obliged the Commitadjis to raise the seige and retire to a village, lying three hours to the south towards Brot. Ten villagers of Suodol came yesterday to the Metropolis and related the facts to me. I immediately informed the Governor, who sent a detachment of troops to ascertain the facts. About 12 o'cl. the same day three villagers from Brot with their wives and children, came to the Metropolis, bemoaning the raiding of their village, the murder of the priest and two notables duringDivine Service, the burning of the priest's house, and adding that the wife of the latter, captured by the Commitadjis, while fleeing from her burning house, was thrown alive into the burning house and burned to death. I immediately proceeded to the Governor's house, and relating the condition of affairs, informed him that I would instantly leave for the village to complete the Divine Service, since there was no other priest there. This morning with a strong escort of cavalry, I proceeded to tbe village, four hours distant, where opening the Church, whose door had been battered in with axes, I found the martyr priest lying weltering in his blood, and the two notables Constantine and Velliani lying on either side. I ascertained that the priest, while reading the psalms before the altar, was shot in the chest from the window opposite by the Commitadjis, who had come from Suodol; putting his stole and the Service Book on the Altar.he ran and closed the two doors of the Church with the help of the above two
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