The American mission having been importuned to open a school in the large village of Khosrova, in Salmas, where popery predominated, two young men, graduates of the seminary, were successively sent thither.

The first was several times driven away, through the instigation of the Lazarists, and those who were friendly to the mission also became objects of persecution.

The second was assailed by the mob, headed, by the French chief of the Lazarists, and by a bishop.

These two men, with their own hands, threw him into a canal, and called on the people to drown or kill him.

He was mercifully delivered, but narrowly escaped with his life.