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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Exactly why I mentioned them. The convert would need to learn some stuff ~

Did you mean Carpatho-Russian, or Carpatho-Rhytian? The CRs are the Orthodox Cossack sent into the Carpathian mountains by the Czar about 1810 to drive out all the "Swedes" (Mostly Sa'ami hard metal miners looking for gold/silver/tin/iron/zinc/etc.)

Those folks had their own language ~ closely related to Skolt ~ and the ones who left to go back to Sweden, and Finland (also the Czar's personal possession), recently disappeared as a linguistic minorty. The last speaker, an elderly woman, passed on.

A tribe of humanity is gone and I was there in spirit if not in fact ~ I had just found out about them weeks before they expire from this world.

A friend of mine was a Carpatho-Rhytian. He died some years back, but he related that the news back home in Pennsylvania was grim. The congregation was getting old and they were going to need to install pews ~ gasp! ~ to seat the elderly for services, but they did have central heat in the old church.

Your kind are not as invisible as you might imagine.

107 posted on 02/15/2012 7:24:02 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

The church is referred to as the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church. I’ve also heard of this particular group of people referred to as Ruthenians. Ethnically, they were from southern Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. When I asked about their language, they just called it “slavic.” They have their own style of plain chant that is used in the services


114 posted on 02/15/2012 8:02:53 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican
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