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Gabriel of Białystok

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that Jews use the blood of Christian babies for their ritual purposes during pre-Passover days. On April 11, 1690, a few days before the beginning of Passover, 6 year-old Gavril Belostoksky was found murdered and drained of his blood in his village of Zverki, which was at the time a Belarusian town,
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After the discovery of his body, Gabriel was buried in Zverki, in an area of the local cemetery where child plague-fatalities would later be interred. In a funeral of 1720, the grave was accidentally unearthed and the body was found to be
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The Russian Orthodox Church canonized Gavril in the 20th century as the patron saint of sick children; he is commemorated in the beginning of each May.
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Some authorities have expressed concern that veneration of Gabriel of Białystok may be used to foment anti-Semitism. In a 1997 report to the
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On July 27, 1997, a film depiction of the legend surrounding Gabriel's death was aired on Belarusian television which was criticised by
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Contemporary accounts, which claim that Jews murdered a boy in a ritual manner in order to use his blood, are resurrecting the medieval
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Belarus Report, Dr. Yakov Basin, August 10, 1997. UCSJ Position Paper. Belarus - Chronicle of Antisemitism. April–December, 1997.
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but is now in Polish territory. Soon thereafter, the accusation that he had been murdered by Jews who needed his blood to bake
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UNHCR - U.S. Department of State Annual Report on International Religious Freedom for 2006 - Belarus
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According to tradition, six-year-old Gabriel was kidnapped from his home in the village of
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Investigation of the Murder of Christian Babies by Jews and the Use of Their Blood.
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of children. In the 1930s the relics were transferred to the Minsk Museum of
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Peter and Anastasia Govdel, were working in a nearby field. Shutko, a Jewish
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as a move to "exploit the topic of blood libel." The revival of the cult in
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reports on human rights and religious freedoms, which were passed to the
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by Vyacheslav Feigin, Yakov Basin. The "Judaica Rossica" series, #2.
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March 22] 1684 – April 20, 1690), is a child saint in the
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was spread throughout Belarus. The libel was bolstered in 1844 in
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Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
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biography of St. Gavriil, Белорусская Православная Церковь
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National-Patriotic Tendencies in the Belarusian Media
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