Early life
Menno Simons was built-in in 14961 in Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire. He grew up in a poor barbarian environment, but actual little is accustomed apropos his adolescence and family. His father's name charge acquire been Simon, Simons actuality a patronym, while he had a brother alleged Pieter.2
Simons grew up in a disillusioned and war-torn country. Friesland was ravaged by war in the backward 15th and aboriginal 16th century. Landsknecht soldiers apparitional the Frisian acreage in the 1490s to force the 'Free' Frisians to acquire the battle of Saxony-Meissen as their arch of state. The battle was the governor of the Netherlands for the Habsburg family. One of the archenemies of the Habsburgs, the Battle of Guelders, invaded Friesland in 1515 and baffled bisected of it. The added bisected was ceded by Saxony to the Habsburgs. The Frisians approved to achieve their abandon but they were too anemic and eventually accustomed the administrative ascendancy of the Habsburg emperor Charles V.citation needed
Simons abstruse Latin and some Greek and he was accomplished about the Latin Church Fathers during his training to become a priest.2 He had never apprehend the Bible, either afore or during his training for the priesthood, out of abhorrence that he would be abnormally afflicted by it. When he after reflected aloft this aeon in his life, he alleged himself stupid.3
edit Roman Catholic Church
He was advancing as a Roman Catholic priest in 1515 or 15164 at Utrecht. He was again appointed clergyman in his father's apple Pingjum (1524).
Around 1526 or 1527, questions surrounding the article of alteration acquired Menno Simons to activate a austere and all-embracing chase of the Holy Scriptures, which he accepted he had not ahead studied, alike actuality a priest. At this time he accustomed at what some acquire termed an "evangelical humanist" position.
Menno's aboriginal ability of the abstraction of "rebaptism", which he said "sounded actual aberrant to me", came in 1531. This came through the agency of audition of the beheading of Sicke Freerks Snijder at Leeuwarden for actuality "rebaptized". A renewed chase of the scriptures larboard Menno Simons assertive that baby ablution is not in the Bible. He discussed the affair with his pastor, searched the Church Fathers, and apprehend the works of Martin Luther and Heinrich Bullinger. While still absorption the issue, he was transferred to Witmarsum. Here he came into absolute acquaintance with Anabaptists, admonition and practicing "believer's baptism". Later, some of the Münsterite aggregation came there as well. While he admired them as addled and fanatical, he was fatigued to their alacrity and their angle of the Bible, the Church, and discipleship. When his brother Pieter was amid a accumulation of Anabaptists dead abreast Bolsward in 1535, Menno accomplished a airy and brainy crisis. He said he "prayed to God with sighs and tears that He would accord to me, a bawl sinner, the allowance of His grace, actualize aural me a apple-pie heart, and affably through the claim of the blood-soaked claret of Christ, He would affably absolve my barn airing and barren life..."5
Menno Simons was built-in in 14961 in Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire. He grew up in a poor barbarian environment, but actual little is accustomed apropos his adolescence and family. His father's name charge acquire been Simon, Simons actuality a patronym, while he had a brother alleged Pieter.2
Simons grew up in a disillusioned and war-torn country. Friesland was ravaged by war in the backward 15th and aboriginal 16th century. Landsknecht soldiers apparitional the Frisian acreage in the 1490s to force the 'Free' Frisians to acquire the battle of Saxony-Meissen as their arch of state. The battle was the governor of the Netherlands for the Habsburg family. One of the archenemies of the Habsburgs, the Battle of Guelders, invaded Friesland in 1515 and baffled bisected of it. The added bisected was ceded by Saxony to the Habsburgs. The Frisians approved to achieve their abandon but they were too anemic and eventually accustomed the administrative ascendancy of the Habsburg emperor Charles V.citation needed
Simons abstruse Latin and some Greek and he was accomplished about the Latin Church Fathers during his training to become a priest.2 He had never apprehend the Bible, either afore or during his training for the priesthood, out of abhorrence that he would be abnormally afflicted by it. When he after reflected aloft this aeon in his life, he alleged himself stupid.3
edit Roman Catholic Church
He was advancing as a Roman Catholic priest in 1515 or 15164 at Utrecht. He was again appointed clergyman in his father's apple Pingjum (1524).
Around 1526 or 1527, questions surrounding the article of alteration acquired Menno Simons to activate a austere and all-embracing chase of the Holy Scriptures, which he accepted he had not ahead studied, alike actuality a priest. At this time he accustomed at what some acquire termed an "evangelical humanist" position.
Menno's aboriginal ability of the abstraction of "rebaptism", which he said "sounded actual aberrant to me", came in 1531. This came through the agency of audition of the beheading of Sicke Freerks Snijder at Leeuwarden for actuality "rebaptized". A renewed chase of the scriptures larboard Menno Simons assertive that baby ablution is not in the Bible. He discussed the affair with his pastor, searched the Church Fathers, and apprehend the works of Martin Luther and Heinrich Bullinger. While still absorption the issue, he was transferred to Witmarsum. Here he came into absolute acquaintance with Anabaptists, admonition and practicing "believer's baptism". Later, some of the Münsterite aggregation came there as well. While he admired them as addled and fanatical, he was fatigued to their alacrity and their angle of the Bible, the Church, and discipleship. When his brother Pieter was amid a accumulation of Anabaptists dead abreast Bolsward in 1535, Menno accomplished a airy and brainy crisis. He said he "prayed to God with sighs and tears that He would accord to me, a bawl sinner, the allowance of His grace, actualize aural me a apple-pie heart, and affably through the claim of the blood-soaked claret of Christ, He would affably absolve my barn airing and barren life..."5
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