шопите не се бьлгари, славяни се и следателно неприятели бьлгарски=турски.

Ама шопите винаги са имали МАКЕДОНСКО НАЦИОНАЛНО САМОСОЗНАНИЕ; по Кр. паланка сички видни хора за да запазат македонщината през 19 век се презивали МАКЕДОНСКИ!

1865

A note from the priest Demetrius:

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit,

I, priest Demetrius, was born in the village of Ogut, in the Kriva Palanka region.

and held the services in my native village, when in the year of our Lord 1848, the champions of the town of Kriva Palanka employed me as a priest against the will of His Grace, the Greek priest Kir Gavrail.

Mr. Mikhail Makedonski interceded most in favor of my appointment, because I'm a Macedonian by birth and hold the services in the Slav language.

Such was the Fate of my fatherland Macedonia, to suffer from the Greeks, so that they will not give us peace even today, although everyone knows that Macedonia is an older state then their kingdom.

We had our own Slav educators, Cyril and Methodius, who left us our Slav alphabet. They were Macedonians born in Salonika, the glorious capital of Macedonia. Our Greek bishop does not admit this, so we do not want him to be our priest, but we want to have our own arch-priest, a Slav, for time everlasting.

Amen.

Note in the book "Zitie Svetih" in Kriva Palanka Church. The last page.