Europe in the Age of the Reformation

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The Anabaptists

The Moravian Persecutions

The great persecution in Moravia was 1547 to 1564. Many were killed and nearly all were exiled from one place to another, multiple times. A whole generation was spent being harassed from Moravia to Hungary and back again. The Hutterites stayed in touch with brothers and sympathizers in Poland, northern Italy, and southeast Europe.

The persecutions gradually came to an end in the middle 1560s. The Hutterites survived and continued to live in Moravia. Some even emigrated to the New World in later centuries.