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Born May 23 1893 at Srem near Topolovgrad Bulgaria Peter Vitchev came from a peasant Orthodox family. He joined the Catholic congregation known as the Assumptionists or Augustinians of the Assumption in 1910 beginning his novitiate in Gempe Belgium and later taking the name Kamen. He pursued his studies of philosophy and theology in Louvain Belgium. He was ordained a priest in Constantinople (Istanbul) on December 22 1921. After a brief period teaching at St.