by Mary Holmes | Mar 8, 2025
The house must have been packed. In her diary Anna recalls how her parents would hold meetings in their home to discuss their faith, read the Bible and pray, with up to 200 people attending such meetings. It is not surprising that the authorities were keen to stop... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Feb 6, 2025
Anna’s young life was a real mix of the light and the dark. The dark was linked directly to what happened in Prague in the 1400s, discussed in my previous post at https://elizabethwe.co.uk/annas-story/ The light in her life: Anna was born in 1715 in one of the many... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Jan 9, 2025
Prague, Herrnhut and Suchdol were three places I had the pleasure of visiting last year to attend two Moravian conferences. Building on those experiences, I will share with you the history of the earliest protestant church … it tells the story of how Moravian refugees... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Dec 7, 2024
Across the globe at this time of year Moravian stars are shining to brighten up our homes, churches and public spaces. Each star reminds us of the Bible story of the star shining brightly over where Jesus was born. So, how did these stars start? Simply as a way of... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Nov 19, 2024
In 1722 folk started leaving Moravia to escape persecution and death[1]. All refugees need a place to settle and to find some peace in their traumatised lives. Count Zinzendorf offered these religious migrants land on which they built Herrnhut; hence this place... Read More
by Mary Holmes | Oct 29, 2024
David Nitschmann, David Nitschmann, David Nitschmann {yes, there were three of them}, Johann Teltschik, Melchior Zeisberger. The five pillars of the church. Five young men who escaped from Suchdol. Three hundred years ago. Eleven days later, they reached Herrnhut. A... Read More
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