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Conrad Grebel , son of a prominent Swiss merchant and councilman, was a co-founder of the Swiss Brethren movement. In 1961 a Mennonite University College was named after him in Waterloo, Ontario.

✵ 1498 – 1526
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“True believing Christians are sheep among wolves. … They employ neither worldly sword nor war, since with them killing is absolutely renounced.”

Conrad Grebel

Letter to Thomas Müntzer (1524), as cited in William R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story (1996), pp. 41-42
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