A 19th century romanticized painting of this event!

But the peace didn't last long.

Just two years later in 1531, they clashed again in the Second War of Kappel where the Catholics defeated the Protestants and killed the famous Huldrych Zwingli.

Nothing was solved.

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For Reformation Day, here are the main characters of the Protestant Reformation if they were anime girls: Luther-chan, Calvin-chan, Zwingli-chan and Leo-sama

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11 Oct 1531: Huldrych Zwingli reformer & theologian killed in the Battle of Kappel (BM)

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I thought I should draw some of Xigua and Zwingli! They're super cute!!

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Day 13: Ulrich Zwingli
- "Before anyone in the area had ever heard of Luther, I began to preach the gospel of Christ in 1516…"
- Opposed the Catholic church by supporting the Christian liberty of eating of meat during Lent.
- Brought Protestantism to Switzerland.

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1531 Huldrych/Ulrich Zwingli, leader of the Reformation in Switzerland & founder of the Zwinglian movement, died during the second of war of Kappel (1531 between Protestant & Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy)

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Anonymous woodcut from 1557 of the 1529 Marburg Colloquy summoned by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. It tried to solve a disputation between Luther and over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, while also aiming for the consolidation of a Protestant alliance.

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Did you know that the Swiss reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed in 1531 during the Battle of Kappel when Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich? This image comes from our Zwingli Bible that we sold at TEFAF Maastricht this spring.

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