This letter somehow has never been translated I f you for my page you will see the footnotes of Victorin GalaBert Letter 24, 1862 CD AGB 010200 This Letter is addressed to his other friend, Fr Hyppolyte. He feels it is his mission to protect him. As if he needed protecting! The listening of a friend perhaps but protection of him! It is from Francis the 1st (Francois Ier), from Paris, on the 15th of July 1862. It is an important letter because many secrets have been revealed to him in this conversation with the secretary. As far as I know he will never tell the others except Hyppolyte about this conversation not even to Fr. d’Alzon. At eas not in writing. He knows about all this because of the secretary, but he will not tell neither to Fr. d’Alzon, neither to Msgr. Brunoni, neither to the Propaganda, nor to the Lazarists about this conversation. Talk about a providential event! My dear Father, I am now sending you two thousand francs; you will receive in the next mail 1 thousand francs, and perhaps two thousand francs, but do not count on 3000 francs in all. Fr. Picard has not yet been able to get money for you. Ms. the Superior went collecting which did not lead to anything,. She must have written to you about it. Yesterday Father Picard took me with him to make a visit to the Private Secretary of Prince Cuza , hospodar or governor of Wallachia and Moldavia of Romania. This Mister gave us curious details about Bulgaria. He was the editor of the Courier of the Orient, and was one of the first to raise the Bulgarian issue. The movement according to him is primarily a national movement. Leaders do not aspire to anything other than to throw off the yoke of the Greek Patriarch and get rid of the abuses of taxation of the Greek clergy. They wanted a National Independent Church of the East and the Courier of the Orient first stated it this way. But as our editor has admitted several times he was going astray, and support ostensibly given by Russia to the movement opened his eyes . He warned leaders who were then thrown on the side of Rome. The Lazarists have not been able to become masters of the situation and they have become impossible as already said the Rev. Petit to Fr. Picard. The Jesuits have also tried to settle in Bulgaria, but population repulsed them. They had the unfortunate idea to send in this country two Fathers ethnic Russians, Fr. Gagarin, (s.j.) and another and they put in their program teaching that they must not teach the French language in schools run by the Fathers, under the pretext that many poorly written or bad books were written in that language. As the leaders of the movement did they refuse to help them; the Fathers had to go to Italy or France. The Bulgarians want above all their nationality and renounce the Greek schism to avoid abuses of the clergy. Catholicism for leaders is a means and not an end. Do not talk to these people about conversion but tell them that it is to stop a simple misunderfsnding between Latin Catholics and Greeks. They do not want no more to be called Catholic-Bulgarians but Bulgarians-United. The Greek clergy also takes the title of Catholic and has rendered it odious to all Eastern Christendom. - Here are the key details given to us by Secretary of Prince Cuza by whom we were very well received. We expect Fr. Vincent, Thursday morning. You do not talk to me about my return. We ( plural of politeness) concluded by that silence that I have to stay in Paris until the end of the month. We want to know what the intentions of the Father about the distribution of prices Does he prefer to see us attend or would he like better that we arrived after the solemnity? We will do what is most pleasing to him? Adieu, yours truly in N. S. J. C. V. Galabert. otnotes of Letter 23 1862
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