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Brother and sisters,
By the light of God your suffering will one day end. I myself was born under foreign occupation. It was through the grace of God, and our one holy catholic and apostolic church that we Serbs have liberated our people. It was just as predicted that Serbs living under Catholic rule would suffer more than those under the Moslem yoke. Never did the Ottoman sultan erase our language, never did the Ottoman sultan say that Serbs were not Serbs but Turks. It is because, as you know my brothers and sisters, unlike the Croat, the Turk knew to respect the Serb.
When the Turk did not respect the Serb, when the janissary dahije seized our land and ruled with an iron fist, we rose up and won our independence. Today, the Austrian does not respect you, my brothers and sisters. Pray, my brothers and sisters, for Gods deliverance, and make your voices heard. All Serbs should live in one country, as that is right. That is our right as a nation on earth just as any other nations. Remember the noble Chetniks that gave their lives to liberate our homelands from the Ottoman tyrants. Remember the noble soldiers that gave their lives to defend the fatherland from the very people who now rule over you.
Do not stop speaking the Cyrillic language. Do not stop calling yourselves Serbs. For he is who is ashamed to be a Serb is no Serb at all. By the Grace of God Serbs will be united; only unity saves the Serbs. Know now the plan of the Croat, what they wish to do for you. Know now how they wish to silence our faith, our language, and our culture.
Yours, under God.
Patriarch Varnava I, Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch.
This letter was sent via Patriarchal delegates to the Metropolitan of Cetinje, the Metropolitan of Dabar and Bosnia (Sarajevo), the Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana (Zagreb), the Eparchy of Bačka (Novi Sad), the Eparchy of Banja Luka, the Eparchy of Dalmatia, the Eparchy of Slavonia (Pakrac), the Eparchy of Srem (Sremski Karlovci), the Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina (Mostar), and the Eparchy of Zvornik and Tuzla (Tuzla), along with instructions to share it with the bishops and priests in each diocese.
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