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Felix Manz
1527Jan, 5

Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, is executed by drowning.

Felix Manz (also Felix Mantz) (c. 1498 – 5 January 1527) was an Anabaptist, a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and the first martyr of the Radical Reformation.

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