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The Corpus is now available on DVD from the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center. On the bicentennial anniversary of the moving of the group from Silesia to Saxony, the Society in 1926 presented an elaborate pageant of the early days, with script by Dr. Samuel K. Brecht.
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SCHWENKFELDER LIBRARY & HERITAGE CENTER, PENNSBURG,...
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OTHER SCHWENKFELDER CEMETERIES (No known immigrants here)...
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MARKERS TO BE ERECTED IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF SCHWENKFELDER...
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May 3, 2024 · Silesia, historical region located mainly in what is now Poland, shown before the First Silesian War, 1740. (more) Silesia, historical region that is now in southwestern Poland.
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Caspar Schwenckfeld von Ossig (1489/90–1561) was a radical-Protestant, spiritual reformer. Born a member of the lower nobility, Schwenckfeld lived in Silesia (at that time an area on the eastern border of Germany; today southwestern Poland) from the time of his birth in 1489/90 until 1529 when he was exiled as a heretic.
It commemorates the arrival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 13, 1734, of some 180 Schwenkfelder immigrants fleeing persecution in their native homelands of Silesia, Germany. Upon arrival, they paused to give thanks to God for the safe arrival to a place where they would find freedom to practice their faith as they pleased.
Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately 40,000 km 2 (15,400 sq mi), and the population is estimated at 8,000,000. Silesia is split into two main subregions, Lower Silesia in the west and Upper Silesia in
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Caspar Schwenckfeld lived from 1489 to 1561. He was born into a family of nobility in Silesia (now part of Poland), was raised Roman Catholic, and was educated to be a diplomat in the European courts. He was a court advisor in Silesia in 1517 when Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg, triggering the Protestant Reformation.
May 2, 2017 · The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center has evolved and grown in its 133-year history, from a small historical society where preservation of the Schwenkfelder heritage was job one to a library and museum that was a destination for a small audience of in-the-know scholars and researchers, and now is a vibrant cultural organization dedicated to the preservation of these collections and ...
