Menno Simons
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Menno Simons was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who renounced the Catholic Church and became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contempora
The house near Bad Oldesloe in which Simons is believed to have worked
Menno Simons (1854)
Mennonites
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Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the Frisian cleric Menno Simons. Simons beca
Menno Simons
…influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites. Menno Simons was born in 1496 in Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire. Very little is known concerning his childhood and family except that he grew…
Execution of the Mennonites Jan Woutersz van Cuyck and Adriaanken Jans in Dordrecht in 1572 (Engraving by Jan Luyken for the 1685 edition of the Martyrs Mirror)
Worship service at The Meeting Place in Winnipeg, Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches
An Evangelical Mennonite Church in Altkirch
Old Order Mennonite horse and carriage