The letter from bishop Joseph Ferencz
History is exciting and at the moment I am doing research on the early Unitarian movement here in Norway. The first movement begun in our capital, Oslo (then named Christiania or Kristiania), about 1893 for more or less to vanish into nowhere in 1937. A second Unitarian movement started at the end of the 1980ies and is still alive.
One of the new discoveries is that in 1909 the Norwegian Unitarian pastor Herman Haugerud travelled to the USA and England in order to collect money for a church building the Norwegian Unitarians were planning to erect. Looking at Haugerud’s old correspondence suddenly a letter from the Hungarian bishop Joseph Ferencz turns up. Here he writes that the Unitarian churches in Hungary have collected 1,000 Crowns for the Norwegian Unitarians. If you are interested to read the letter, click here: unitarian.christian.net/foto/hungarynorway.pdf
2007. May 1. at 22:34
“… our common aim and endeavor in spreading by Unitarianism brighter and more liberal religious ideas.”
What a great letter! Thank you for sharing it Knut.
Michael