Padre Gapon (Ingles)

Early life
Father Gapon was born in present-day Ukraine to a family of peasants.He was educated in a theological seminary and married in 1896, but was widowed in 1898. Graduated from the SaintPetersburg Theological Academy in 1902, Gapon became a religious teacher at the St. Olga children's orphanage in 1900 and became involved in working with factory workers and families impoverished byunemployment.
Bloody Sunday incident
Father Gapon organized the Assembly of Russian Factory and Mill Workers of St. Petersburg, which was patronized by the Department of the Police and the St. PetersburgOkhrana (secret police). The Assembly's objectives were to defend workers' rights and to elevate their moral and religious status. Only persons of Russian Orthodox denomination were eligible to joinits ranks. Soon the organization had twelve branches and 8,000 members, and Gapon tried to expand activities to Kiev and Moscow. Gapon was not simply an obedient instrument of the police; cooperatingwith them, he tried to realize his own plans.
From the end of 1904, Gapon started to cooperate with radicals, who had championed the abolition of the Tsar's autocracy.
On January 22 [O.S. January 9]1905, the day after the general strike burst out in St. Petersburg, Gapon organized a workers' procession to present a petition to the Czar, which ended tragically (Bloody Sunday 1905). Gapon's lifewas saved by Pinchas Rutenberg, who took Gapon away from gun fire.
Following the Bloody Sunday, Gapon anathematized the Tsar and called upon the workers to take action against the regime, but soonafter escaped abroad, where he had close ties with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Gapon and Rutenberg fled abroad, being welcomed in Europe both by prominent Russian emigrants Georgy Plekhanov,Vladimir Lenin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French socialist leaders Jean Jaurès and Georges Clemenceau. He found sanctuary in Geneva[3] and in London at 33 Dunstan House, Stepney, with anarchists Peter...