A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1772, sig. 109-4/1527

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12 - 5 - as was the case recently on the Trinity Sunday before the Tabernacles. Above all, however, we and our priests in the present time want to show the faithful what faith in personal God and faith in the Redeemer means for them and what he has meant for Germany in all centuries of his history! Together with our priests and faithful, we will celebrate the Church as the great Blessing and Cultural Carrier also for the German people. We will rekindle the love of the Pctri chair as the divinely founded teaching pulpit at the unity center of the Kingdom of God on earth and seek to strengthen faithfulness and thus work against the division of national ecclesial aspirations with power. We will arm ourselves with the purpose: we will remain faithful to God and the Redeemer, faithful to the Church and its head, may happen what wants. We will teach our faithful, even in the deepest darkness, to remain faithful and endure even if not priests and sacraments, until the sun of the Peacer of Christ shines upon our Fatherland. We are filled with good confidence. Too deep is the true faith in God rooted in the hearts of our Voikes, too deep is ChristiAntlitz and the form of the German sect imprinted, too deeply has the love for the Church grasped millions, so that even the most severe oppression could destroy the Church in Germany, especially since the Saviour's grace is generously at the side of those suffering and suffering for the sake of faith. Faithfulness to Christ already shines more gloriously than before. Due to the hardships they have grown up in the joy of faith! We have presented Ew. Holiness our concerns. However, we are well aware that the heart of the Father of Christendom is of far more comprehensive and