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January 1484 A.D. Ulrich Zwingli Born—Swiss Reformer & Contemporary of Luther and Cranmer
Ulrich Zwingli (1484 to 1532)
Reformed Church
Fighter for truth.
Ulrich Zwingli, Swiss reformer, was born in
Wildhaus, Toggenberg, St. Gall. He studied theology in Berne, Basel and Vienna.
At 23 he officiated already as priest at Glarus, and the serious, unexcitable
farmer's boy developed now into an enthusiastic fighter for truth and practical
Christianity. It was his belief that the one
and only basis and topic of all sermons should be the Bible. He replaced the
mass with the Lord's Supper. He met with Martin Luther in 1529 at Marsburg, and
while they agreed on most points of doctrine, they divided over the manner of
observance of the Lord's Supper. When civil war broke out between the Catholics
and the Protestants, he was killed bearing the banner in battle Oct. 11, 1532,
at age 47.
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