Pièce JM-AEPI/VI/Γ/15/1885/45 - Petition sent by Four inhabitants of Beyt Jala.

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Complaints that they were always loyal to the Monastery, but the Monastery was always against them; when through the Government they decided to build, the Metropolitan Bishop of Neapolis succeeded to stop their work, promising to allow them to continue at a later time, but until now nothing happened; recently their Abbot conducted the wedding of Rista’s daughter with a foreigner while she has a fiancée, who had paid 1,500 piasters from her dowry (the fiancée got married to another woman some years ago while the daughter was released from the time of the late Ierotheos (Ιερόθεος), and recently her release was finally ratified by the Court and His Beatitude, and the abbot has her dowry; they ask (a) to get an order to build and (b) that the relatives be given the dowry according to the local tradition.

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