The Moravian Episcopate (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Moravian EpiscopateAfter the burning of Iieitomischl, the Brethren began (about1550) to gather materials for new archives This important labor was in trusted to various Bishops of whom the most active we1e Nigranus and Blahoslav. By theii exertions there were brought tog ether fourteen folio volumes of manusmipts relating to the history of 'the Church and her correspondence with the Reformers, and co taining duplicates of some of the lost records.2 Until the year 1620, .these second archives were preserved at different places in Bohemia and Moravia. Then, amidst the storms of the Anti-re formation, pious hands conveyed them for safe-keeping to Lissa, a town of what is now Prussian Poland, not far from the Silesian frontier, 3 whe1e they remained for two l1und1ed and twenty two, years, 4 and were, at length, entirely tor, gotte1_:1 in as much as Ja blonsky and Sitkovius, the last Bishops of the Ancient Church, passed away without informing the Renewed Church of their exist ence. Perhaps they were themselves not aware of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.