Petros Elia was born in the Lower Baz village, Ottoman Empire in April 1880. There he received his elementary education before attending a European missionary school in the Iranian city of Urmia. After finishing his studies, he went back to his village of Baz and became a teacher there. He later emigrated to British Columbia(Canada). To make a living, he resorted to « religious begging » and thus collected a certain amount of donations purportedly for the building of an orphanage in Macedonia. However, as the Canadian police, suspecting a felony, were about to arrest him, he fled the country.
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