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Missionaries. This sermon hastily brought the Apostolique
Delegate, Mgr. Lesne, from Urmia to Salmas. He remained
to the last a friend of Father Benjamin. They both returned
to Urmia. A new Russian Mission had already been established
in Urmia since 1899. The Nestorians were enthusiastically
embracing the religion of the "holy" Tsar of All Russias!
Five big and ostentatious missions, Americans, Anglicans,
French, Germans and Russians with their colleges,
press backed up by rich religious societies, Consuls and
Ambassadors, were endeavoring to convert about one
hundred thousand Assyro-Chaldeans from Nestorian heresy
unto one or another of the five heresies. But the Russian
Mission soon outstripped the others, and it was this mission
which in 1915 pushed or forced the Assyrians of Persia, as
well as the mountaineer tribes of Kurdistan, who had then
Delegate, Mgr. Lesne, from Urmia to Salmas. He remained
to the last a friend of Father Benjamin. They both returned
to Urmia. A new Russian Mission had already been established
in Urmia since 1899. The Nestorians were enthusiastically
embracing the religion of the "holy" Tsar of All Russias!
Five big and ostentatious missions, Americans, Anglicans,
French, Germans and Russians with their colleges,
press backed up by rich religious societies, Consuls and
Ambassadors, were endeavoring to convert about one
hundred thousand Assyro-Chaldeans from Nestorian heresy
unto one or another of the five heresies. But the Russian
Mission soon outstripped the others, and it was this mission
which in 1915 pushed or forced the Assyrians of Persia, as
well as the mountaineer tribes of Kurdistan, who had then