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9 unusual facts about Moravian Church


Brasenia

The genus commemorates the surgeon and Moravian missionary Christoph Brasen (1738-1774), who was the first superintendent of the Moravian mission at Nain in Labrador.

Castleton Corners, Staten Island

Castleton Corners is separated from its eastern neighbor Sunnyside by Castleton Hill, noted for the two churches that stand across from one another on its western ridge—a Moravian church (Castleton Hill Moravian Church) on one side of Victory Boulevard and a Roman Catholic church (St. Teresa's) on the other.

Henry Morley

The son of an apothecary, he was born in Hatton Garden, London, educated at a Moravian school in Germany, and at King's College London, and after practicing medicine and keeping schools at various places, went in 1850 to London, and adopted literature as his profession.

James K. Marshall

Marshall had the brigade's Moravian band perform for the men to heighten their morale after the first day's carnage.

Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck

In 1818 she joined the Moravian Church; and although towards the end of her life she was attracted to the Roman Catholic church, she remained a Moravian until her death.

Nancowry Island

The Moravian Brethren of Herrnhut attempted a mission here in the late 1700s in conjunction with the Danish Crown.

Napranum, Queensland

Formerly known as Weipa South, Napranum was established in 1898 by Moravian missionaries on behalf of the Presbyterian church.

New Philadelphia, Ohio

The Moravian Church founded Schoenbrunn ("beautiful spring") in 1772 as a mission to the Delaware Indians.

Quakers and Moravians Act 1833

The Act allowed Quaker, Moravian and Separatist MP's to substitute an affirmation for an oath on their entrance to the House of Commons.


Aldersgate

It was a Moravian Church meeting, during a reading of Martin Luther's commentary on Romans that Wesley reported his heart "strangely warmed" — an event he described as his conversion.

Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Before 1752, when Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg of the Moravian Church visited The Blowing Rock, the windy cliffs of the area were home to the Cherokee and the Catawba Native American tribes.

Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf

Christian Renatus, Imperial Count von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf was the charismatic leader of the Single Brethren's Choir of the Moravian Church and of Herrnhaag (God’s Grove), a Christian religious community built near Büdingen by his father, Nicholas Ludwig, head of the Brüdergemeine or Moravian Unity.

Courland

George Henry Loskiel, (1740–1814), born in Angermuende in Courland, Moravian clergyman who obtained complete separation of the European and American branches of the church.

David Nitschmann der Syndikus

David Nitschmann der Syndikus (David Nitschmann the Syndic; September 20, 1703 in Zauchtenthal/Suchdol nad Odrou – March 28, 1779 in Zeist) was a Czech-born Moravian missionary.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

Born in Breslau in the Prussian Silesia as the son of a Reformed Church chaplain in the Prussian army, Schleiermacher started his formal education in a Moravian school at Niesky in Upper Lusatia, and at Barby near Magdeburg.

German North Polar Expedition

In June 1870, the crew got to the coast by boat and reached the Moravian Herrnhut mission at Friedrichsthal (modern Narsaq Kujalleq) near Cape Farewell, from where they got back to Germany on a Danish ship.

Gustavus Hesselius

He also worked as an organ builder, having built an organ for the Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1746.

Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff (maiden name von Friesen auf Roetha, October 6, 1648, Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate – March 6, 1726, Grosshennersdorf, Upper Lusatia, Saxony) was a German Baroque religious poet, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church.

Jan Černý-Nigranus

Jan Černý-Nigranus (born 1500 or 1510 in Kunvald; died 5 February 1565 in Mladá Boleslav), was a Czech historian, preacher and bishop of the Jednota bratrská now called the Moravian Church.

Jane Leade

Leade's spiritual and literary legacy can be found in Radical German Pietism, particularly in the Moravians under Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, in German Romanticism, and in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, William Law and William Blake.

John Christian Jacobson

John Christian Jacobson (8 April 1795 Burkal, Denmark - 24 November 1870 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was a Moravian bishop in the United States.

Matthias Stach

Matthias Stach (sometimes anglicized to Matthew Stach or Stack) (March 4, 1711 in Mankendorf) was a Moravian missionary in Greenland.

Moravian Indian Reserve No. 47

Following the Gnadenhutten massacre near present day Gnadenhutten, Ohio, on March 8, 1782, a group of surviving Christian Munsees left that area led by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, eventually reestablishing their community in what is today southern Ontario Canada.

On Religion

He entered a Moravian seminary in Barby, Germany in 1785, only to lead to his eventual expulsion for engaging in heretical philosophic discourse.

Religion in Sweden

During the era following the Reformation, usually known as the period of Lutheran Orthodoxy, small groups of non-Lutherans, especially Calvinist Dutchmen, the Moravian Church and Walloons or French Huguenots from Belgium, played a significant role in trade and industry, and were quietly tolerated as long as they kept a low religious profile.

Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet

He was educated at the Moravian School in Neuwied in the Rhineland-Palatinate on the banks of the River Rhine and then at Manchester New College, London.

William Thomas Thornton

He was educated at the Moravian settlement at Ockbrook in Derbyshireand, after work experience abroad with relatives, obtained a clerkship in the East India House.


see also

Fratrum

Unitas Fratrum was the original name for the organisation that became the Moravian Church.

Heinrich Wullschlägel

Wullschlägel received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church.

Karl von Zinzendorf

His uncle was Nicolaus Zinzendorf, a famous religious and social reformer and bishop of the Moravian Church.

Romig

Joseph H. Romig (1872-1951), frontier physician in Alaska and Moravian Church missionary