Orientales ecclesias

With the encyclical Orientales Ecclesia (Latin: The Eastern churches ) from December 15, 1952 Pope Pius XII writes. " The Persecution of the Eastern Church. "

Occasion of this encyclical is the detention (1948 ) and the martyrdom (5 October 1952) of the Bulgarian bishop Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff from Nico Poli, the eponymous diocese of Nicopolis. Pius XII. expressed its solidarity with the Eastern Churches expressed and mentioned the people,

" Who persevere in faith and resist the enemies of Christianity with the same indomitable strength with which they at that time their ancestors resisted. "

He pointed out commended that they had shown the courage to remain faithful connected with the Pope in Rome and with their pastors.

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