Anabaptist Church History
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Winter 1553–1554 · event

Mennonite aid to refugees at Wismar

During the winter of 1553–1554, Mennonites at Wismar helped Reformed refugees whose ship had become ice-bound. The supplied overview remembers practical assistance across a difference of confession.

The same caption places the episode beside Menno Simons’s later refuge near Oldesloe in Holstein. Together the accounts show hospitality and protection as lived parts of the communities’ history, alongside their preaching and written teaching.

Sources for this history: [1]

References

  1. Supplied history overview: 9363-E, Aid to Calvinists and Menno’s House