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• Conversion
  of the belief system to which one is converted and, furthermore, upon the personality characteristics of the convert. Conversion can be described as intellectual
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• Emmerich am Rhein (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany)
  the French for a short period, who attempted to catholicize the town. To convert the Mennonites they sent Dr. Formantijn from Paris; but van Voorst’s superior
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• Ingolstadt (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)
  he was beheaded on 7 August 1587 after a vain attempt by the Jesuits to convert him (Die Lieder der Hutlerischen Brűder, 785). The first settlement of Jesuits
  7 KB (971 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
• Lower Rhine (Germany)
  Catholic Church. In 1563 the Catholic priest Georg Cassander was assigned to convert to Catholicism the Anabaptist teacher Johannes Campanus, who had for years
  13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:37, 20 July 2021
• Nürnberg (Freistaat Bayern, Germany)
  called "Lug ins Land." Osiander and other theologians tried in vain to convert him. In 1536 the council had a whole Bible brought to him with Melanchthon's
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• Ammann, Jakob (17th/18th century)
  records would be appropriate if Ammann had been a convert from the Reformed Church to Anabaptism. As a new convert Ammann might have become more committed to
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• Philipp I, Landgrave of Hesse (1504-1567)
  rulers. But he did not yield, and sent the pastor Raidt to Mühlhausen to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned there; Raidt was surprisingly successful in persuading
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• Melchiorites
  Strasbourg, Alsace. Among them baptism was performed as a sign that the adult convert was forsaking the world, the flesh, and the devil, and entering into a covenant
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• Inn Valley (Austria)
  Hearings took place at Imst in 1538, to which Dr. Gallus Müller was sent to convert the accused. But Müller's efforts were in vain. There Sebastian Hubmaier
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• Saxony
  of Eisenach, and who persisted in their faith in spite of all efforts to convert them. They were Hans Köhler of Eyerode and Hans Scheffer of Hastungsfelde
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• Imbroich, Thomas von (1533-1558)
  and after repeated cross-examination, cruel torture, and vain attempts to convert him was beheaded on 5 March 1558, at the age of 25 years (not 5 May as stated
  7 KB (1,047 words) - 00:31, 16 January 2017
• Hutterian Brethren (Hutterische Brüder)
  (1740-1780) allowed the otherwise forbidden Jesuits to exert all means to convert non-Catholics back to the Roman Church. And what torture, dungeon, and executioners
  126 KB (6,564 words) - 00:19, 5 August 2023
• Rückenau Mennonite Brethren Church (Rückenau, Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)
  had concentrated sufficiently in this area in 1874 to buy a tavern and convert it into a meetinghouse. Church activities outgrew this building by 1883
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• Osnabrück (Niedersachsen, Germany)
  Dionysius Vinne, traveled from Münster to Osnabrück in October 1534 in order to convert this town. They were all arrested before they could begin their work; four
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• Hutter, Jakob (d. 1536)
  cross-examined two days later. The attempts made by Dr. Gallus Müller to convert him were fruitless. Even if he had recanted, his tragic fate would not have
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• Gotha (Thuringia, Germany)
  given two or three hours for reflection; then new attempts were made to convert them, with the result that three prisoners recanted, while Christoph Ortlep
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• Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany)
  Anabaptists in his country. But he continued his practice of trying to convert them by conversations with clergymen. Leonard Dax, a Hutterite missioner
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• Bucer, Martin (1491-1551)
  the heretics. This reputation induced Philip of Hesse to summon him to convert the Anabaptists imprisoned in Marburg. But before this Bucer still had to
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• Wagner, Georg (d. 1527)
  (4) the water of baptism does not save. The greatest efforts were made to convert him. "Even the prince had pity upon him and is said to have most urgently
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• Carinthia (Austria)
  Hans Gurtzham. A deacon and the parson of Villach put forth much effort to convert them, but were worsted by the superior Biblical knowledge of the defendants
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