Menno Simons
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Menno Simons (1496–1561) was a Protestant Reformer from Friesland. His followers became known as Mennonites.
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- For true evangelical faith...cannot lay dormant; but manifests itself in all righteousness and works of love; it...clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.
- Why I Do Not Cease Teaching and Writing, 1539 [page needed]|
