Felix Manz (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Felix Manz (c. 1498 - 5 January 1527) was a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zurich, Switzerland, and the first martyr of the Radical Reformation. On 7 March 1526, the Zurich council had passed an edict that made adult re-baptism punishable by drowning. On 5 January 1527, Felix Manz became the first casualty of the edict, and the first Swiss Anabaptist to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants. While Manz stated that he wished "to bring together those who were willing to accept Christ, obey the Word, and follow in His footsteps, to unite with these by baptism, and to leave the rest in their present conviction," Zwingli and the council accused him of obstinately refusing "to recede from his error and caprice."