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Daily Tobacco Leaf Chronicle
Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee
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Thirty thousand pilgrims departed from Moscow's Kremlin for Troitsa monastery to mark the 500th anniversary of Saint Sergius's death, accompanied by 1,000 clergy and Cossack guards. They camped en route in wretched conditions, with 100,000 expected to assemble.
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Celebration of the Death of a Saint of Five Centuries Ago.
London, Oct. 5. - The Standard's correspondent at Moscow says:
Thirty thousand pilgrims have started from the Kremlin for Troitsa to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Saint Sergius. They are accompanied by 1,000 of the clergy bearing sacred symbols and images. The pilgrims are passing the night in the village of Mitischshij in the open air. Their kerosene lamps reveal a wretched scene. For three miles along the road the pilgrims are huddled together in groups, sleeping on sacks of broken bread. The whole distance is forty miles. It is expected that 100,000 pilgrims will assemble at the Troitsa monastery. Cossack regiments are leading and guarding the procession. St. Sergius was the chief actor in the fourteenth century struggle to throw off the Tartar yoke.
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Troitsa
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Oct. 5
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Thirty thousand pilgrims started from the Kremlin for Troitsa to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of Saint Sergius, accompanied by 1,000 clergy bearing sacred symbols and images. They passed the night in Mitischshij village in the open air, huddled in groups sleeping on sacks of broken bread for three miles along the road. The distance is forty miles, with 100,000 expected at Troitsa monastery. Cossack regiments led and guarded the procession.