Recognizing that reputation lay by the [Orthodox] priest of Malo-Mozheiskii chapel is not in accordance with the law, and you can worried that consult you’ll force brand new petitioner Kovchik to convert to Catholicism, We think my obligation so you’re able to forward the noted petition away from Kovchik and you will Orlovskaia getting said by the Eminence

I the newest petitioners want to enter an appropriate relationship, but once the Kovchik was of Orthodox trust and you may is part of new Malo-Mozheiskii parish, and you can Orlovskaia try of your Roman Catholic confession and you may is part of this new Zholudskii parish, none this new Malo-Mozheiskii [Orthodox] priest, neither the latest Zholudskii Catholic priest wishes to provide us with the latest marital top, the former without any conversion process off Orlovskaia to your Orthodox trust, and also the latter without having any sales away from Kovhcik with the Roman Catholic faith. As well as it cause we do have the prize of all of the humbly asking for Your own Excellency to point good directive instructing brand new Vilnius Roman-Catholic Spiritual Consistory to get new priest of one’s Zholudskii Roman Catholic church to give united states the fresh [marital] top without the transformation out of Kovchik towards the Roman Catholic confession, given that Orthodox Chapel and also the Roman Catholic church confess faith in the same Goodness Christ, and each individual discovers it more pleasurable in order to hope from the language and then he or she are trained away from young people. (27 April 1909)

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