# Swiss Brethren banished toward the Palatinate

1659 measures; 1671 banishment · Overview

The supplied overview describes an Anabaptist commission at Bern in 1659 and increasing pressure on Swiss Brethren to conform or leave. Arrest, removal, and the loss of a settled home continued the persecution into a period beyond many of the book’s individual martyr accounts.

Its 1671 episode records the banishment of about seven hundred men, women, and children toward the German Palatinate. The history links the Swiss fellowship with the later migrations through which Mennonite and Amish communities took shape in new places.



- [Supplied history overview: 9363-O, Banishment](https://github.com/trueChristian/history.truechristian.church/blob/main/sources/church-history/photos/IMG_9363.jpg)

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