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	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Felix Manz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Felix Manz was the illegitimate son of a canon of Grossmünster church in Zürich.
		On 5 January 1527, Felix Manz became the first casualty of the edict, and the first Swiss Anabaptist to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants.
		While Manz stated that he wished "to bring together those who were willing to accept Christ, obey the Word, and follow in His footsteps, to unite with these by baptism, and to leave the rest in their present conviction", Zwingli and the council accused him of obstinately refusing "to recede from his error and caprice".
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Felix_Manz (872 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Felix Manz
		On January 5, 1527, Felix Manz became the first casualty of the edict, and the first Swiss Anabaptist to be martyred at the hands of the Protestants.
		While Manz only wanted "to bring together those who were willing to accept Christ, obey the Word, and follow in His footsteps, to unite with these by baptism, and to leave the rest in their present conviction", Zwingli and the council accused him of obstinately refusing "to recede from his error and caprice".
		Felix Manz left written testimony of his faith, an eighteen stanza hymn, and was apparently the author of Protestation und Schutzschrift (a defense of Anabaptism presented to the Zürich council)³.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Felix_Manz (981 words)

	Anabaptists of Bern and Zurich
		Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz came to listen to Zwingli's expository sermons before disagreement over the issue of believer's baptism and the separation of church and state led to their persecution by the church and state.
		Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel and George Blaurock were untiring, travelling, visiting from house to house, preaching, exhorting, and thousands of people came to personal faith in Christ.
		Felix Manz was soon captured and given a life sentence in jail, but he managed to escape.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /alan.pibworth/anabaptists (1402 words)

	Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee and Archives \| Home page for mcusa-archives.org
		In prison, Felix Manz remained steadfast in his opinion He said that he would continue to practice rebaptism, because it was biblical.
		According to Bullinger, it was while he was on this painful course that Felix Manz met his mother and his brother, who encouraged him to remain steadfast and faithful.
		Felix Manz was placed on the platform of the hut, where his hands were shackled and (while seated) pulled over his knees.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /events/manz_death-english.htm (600 words)

	Felix Manz - MennoPedia
		Felix Manz wurde als erster Täuferführer in Zürich zum Tode verurteilt und 1527 in der Limmat ertränkt.
		Manz trat bereits beim Bruch der Fastengebote und bei den Bilderstürmen als feuriger junger Verfechter der neuen Lehre hervor.
		Felix Manz sang dabei und lobte Gott, dass er für die Wahrheit sterbe.
	www.mennoforum.net /mennopedia/index.php/Felix_Manz (170 words)

	Umberto Eco + Felix Manz
		By all accounts, Felix Manz was well educated in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin and became a follower of Hulrich Zwingli after he (Manz) relocated to Zürich in 1519.
		Manz formed the first church of the Radical Reformation and the movement spread rapidly, although he was arrested on a number of occasions between 1525 and 1527.
		Manz's death by "baptism" made him not only the first victim of the new Zürich law that dictates the drowning of heretics, but Manz's death also made him the first Protestant in history to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/0105almanac.htm (496 words)

	Christianity / anabaptist / felix manz
		After the Second Disputation of Zürich¹; in 1523, they became dissatisfied, believing that Zwingli's plans for reform had been compromised with the city council.Grebel, Manz, and others made several attempts to plead their position.
		ordered to desist from arguing and submit to the decision of the council, and have their children baptized within eight days, the brethren gathered at the home of Felix Manz and his mother on 21 January.
		On 5 January 1527, Felix Manz became the first casualty of the edict, and the first Swiss Anabaptist to be martyred at the hands of the Protestants.
	www.christianity-guide.com /christianity/felix_manz.htm (798 words)

	Mit Lust so will ich singen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Felix Manz, who wrote the words, "Mit Lust so will ich singen" ("With gladness will I now sing'), was one of the founders of the Anabaptist movement on January 21, 1525.
		On the next day, Manz began his brief but intense activity as an Anabaptist evangelist, a two-year career, repeatedly interrupted by arrests, trials, and imprisonments.
		It was during his final imprisonment that he apparently remembered the first line and tune of a Roaman Catholic hymn in honor of Mary, and using that framework, wrote his praise to Christ, who would deliver him from an eternal death, even though a mortal death awaited him here on earth.
	www.anabaptistvision.org /Songs/Ausbund_6.htm (107 words)

	Mennonite Historical Bulletin
		Zwingli refused and urged the city council to reject the radical steps proposed by Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, and others of the first group of Anabaptists.
		Manz was drowned in the Limmat River on January 5, 1527.
		When Manz, Grebel, and others agitated for even more radical change, the threats came from the opposite direction.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /MHB/YoderF-Reflections.html (1431 words)

	Anabaptists
		The principal is called believers baptism and is a bedrock belief of Baptists today if always subject to questions such as when is a person old enough and mature enough to decide for himself the ultimate decision of commitment of all of his life to Jesus, the Messiah, as savior and Lord.
		It was while he was on this painful course that Felix Manz met his mother and his brother, who encouraged him to remain steadfast and faithful.
		Brought in the boat to this place where there was a small fishing hut located in the middle in the river, he was placed on the platform of the hut, where his hands were shackled and (while seated) pulled over his knees.
	www.wcwcw.com /factsandimpressions/thought209.htm (494 words)

	4. YEAR OF DECISION -- 1525 -- The Protesters
		Cajakob, Manz, Eberli, Hutzer and Brotli were all to be burned, drowned or beheaded within five years of this Zurich meeting, in places hundreds of miles apart.
		Manz and Blaurock stayed the night with Thomann, and during the night Bosshard, the host's son-in-law, recalls how the things he had heard "kept attacking him".
		Blaurock and Manz were imprisoned in the Wellenberg tower which contemporary prints in the local museum show to have been in the middle of the Limmat River near its meeting with the lake.
	www.west.net /~antipas/books/protesters/prot_04.html (4400 words)

	The Rise of the Radical Anabaptists
		Manz was a Hebrew scholar and illegitimate son of a canon of the Grossmünster Church in Zurich.
		Grebel and Manz refused to uphold this doctrine, protested the Council’s decision throughout Zurich, and were arrested as a result.
		A year later Grebel died of the plague away from home, and in January 1527 Manz was publicly executed in Zurich in the River Limmat by drowning for the crime of rebaptism, by order of the Council.
	www.apuritansmind.com /Reformation/McMahonRiseAnabaptists.htm (4620 words)

	Conrad Grebel
		Swiss radical reformer often called the "father of the Anabaptists." His baptism of George Blaurock in the home of Felix Manz was the first adult baptism in Zurich.
		Two facts contribute to Conrad Grebel being considered the "father of Anabaptists." When he baptized George Blaurock, a married former priest, on January 21, 1525, at the home of Felix Manz, it was the first adult baptism of the reformation.
		As a result of these rulings Grebel, Manz, and others gathered in Manz's home on January 25 and witnessed the first adult baptism in Zurich.
	cat.xula.edu /tpr/people/grebel (610 words)

	Felix Manz
		Conrad Grebel, George Blaurock and Felix Manz are names frequently found together in the history of the Anabaptist movement in Switzerland.
		One is amazed at the courage, fortitude and depth of conviction of Manz, as a young man in his mid-20s.
		Manz was the son of an "illegitimate" Catholic priest in Zurich, Switzerland.
	www.anabaptists.org /history/manz.html (286 words)

	The Church History Project - The Reformation - Anabaptists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Grebel and Manz also believed that, whatever changes needed to happen within the Church was a matter for the Church alone and was not the province of the magistrates.
		Grebel and Manz parted company with him and took the road that led to the institution of a "Free Church".
		The Church, as Grebel and Manz envisioned it, was very different from the mediaeval pattern inherited and adopted by Luther and Zwingli.
	www.eaglewing.org.uk /theology/history/anabaptist.html (485 words)

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		Zurich authorities ordered the drowning of Felix Manz, one of their earlist leaders, in the Limmat River in 1527.
		In his sermon, "The new city," based on Zechariah 2 and Matthew 5, he said that the best in the Reformed vision of the church was like the Old Testament city, "open to all citizens without exception." It lifts up Jesus as Lord of all and says that the church is called to shape society.
		The English translation of the inscription on the grey granite plaque reads: "Here in the middle of the Limmat River from a fishing platform, Felix Manz and five other Anabaptists were drowned between 1527 and 1532 during the Reformation.
	www.bridgefolk.net /news/040709.txt (1088 words)

	Heritage Bible Church \| Our history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Martin Luther led the reformation movement, but at the same time Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz were leading another reformation.
		They were driven from their home, banished, imprisoned, and sentenced to death.
		Felix Manz, the first known martyr of the Anabaptist movement, was drowned in 1527.
	www.heritagebible.us /page.php?pageid=ea5c110dccd63b8d311ab85b3a561030 (535 words)

	Eastern Mennonite Seminary - Peter Dettwiler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Peter was instrumental in planning the Reconciliation Conference held in Zurich, Switzerland on June 26, 2004 for the Swiss Reformed Church and descendants of the early Anabaptists.
		An artist's depiction of the execution of Felix Manz and other early Anabaptist martyrs who were put to death in Zurich.
		This conference was the occasion for the unveiling of a plaque beside the Limmat River commemorating Felix Manz and other early Anabaptist martyrs who were executed in Zurich.
	www.emu.edu /seminary/features/dettwiler.html (341 words)

	Mennonite?
		Debates with the Catholic Church leaders were heated and eventually led to the city of Zurich’s religious and political leaders issuing a decree that all unbaptized children were to be baptized within 8 days, and all small Bible study groups were to be disbanded.
		On January 21, 1525, "...Grebel, Felix Manz, Georg Blaurock, Wilhelm Reublin and about a dozen others met for prayer and study in defiance of the Council’s order.
		Word got around and "...Grebel, Blaurock, Manz, and other other leaders were soon imprisoned." Manz refused to recant or change his position and was drowned on January 5, 1527.
	home.southwind.net /~ncfc/about.htm (410 words)

	Guenther Genealogy
		These men included Felix Manz, son of a canon of the Cathedral Church of Zurich, and Georg Blaurock (called Blaurock because of his blue coat), a Catholic priest from the Alps’ city of Chur near the Rhine’s source.
		Now meeting at Felix Manz’s and his mother’s home near the Grossmünster Church in Zollikon, a suburb of Zurich, during a secret Bible study, they took refuge in Acts 5:29.
		Conrad Grebel, along with Felix Manz, is given the honor of starting the Mennonite church.
	www.robert.guenther.net /Ch3.htm (987 words)

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	۞ Felix Manz - Infos und Erklärungen auf Wissen.wisoToday.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Felix Manz (auch Mantz ; * um das Jahr 1498 in Zürich ; † 5.
		Jugendjahre Felix Manz wurde als unehelicher Sohn eines Zürcher Domherrn geboren.
		Inmitten von stürmischen Zeiten riskiert Felix Manz sein Leben für eine freie Kirche Seewis,CH, 2003.
	wissen.wisotoday.de /Felix_Manz (265 words)

	CalendarHome.com - 1527 - Calendar Encyclopedia
		January 5 - Felix Manz, co-founder of the Swiss Anabaptists, was drowned in the Limmat River in Zürich by the Zürich Reformed state church.
		May 6 - Spanish and German troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome (the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII to make peace with Charles V.
		January 5 - Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptist (executed) (born [[1498])
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1527.htm (383 words)

	A Gallery of Factions, Friends and Foes - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Stumf, Reublin, and Brötli had achieved reform in their rural parishes through their refusal to send tithes to support Zurich’s clergy while Zwingli was still trying cautiously to institute reforms in the mass in that city.
		Zwingli’s insistence on the full support of city council frustrated Grebel and Manz, who concluded that the magistrate’s way and Christ’s way were not necessarily the same.
		Relinquishing their first hope of packing city council with likeminded reformers, they met on 21 January 1525 to discuss and pray about their response to city council’s newest law: that all infants be baptized within eight days of birth.
	www.ctlibrary.com /3333 (333 words)

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