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The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
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Country in Central Europe
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located at the intersection of Central, Western, and Southern Europe. It is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, and Italy to the south. Switzerland…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Anabaptism
Christian movement
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Conrad Grebel
Co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement (1498–1526)
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Felix Manz
Co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement (1498–1527)
Felix Manz was an Anabaptist, a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and an early martyr of the Radical Reformation.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
George Blaurock
Anabaptist leader and evangelist (c. 1491 – 1529)
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Zurich
Largest city in Switzerland
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. As of December 2024, the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020),…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Day of the year
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