The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . oHeidelberg, and there secured employment with a bakernamed Prior. Here he experienced an enlightment of theSpirit. At that time religious revival meetings were held * Heidelberg, the present town, was founded in 1147 by Conrad vonHohenstaufen, as Duke of Franconia and Count Palatine. The Univer-sity for which the town is chiefly noted was founded in 1386. Duringthe Reformation Heidelberg bore an important part. In 1562 the cele-brated Heidelberg Catechism was printed. During the
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . oHeidelberg, and there secured employment with a bakernamed Prior. Here he experienced an enlightment of theSpirit. At that time religious revival meetings were held * Heidelberg, the present town, was founded in 1147 by Conrad vonHohenstaufen, as Duke of Franconia and Count Palatine. The Univer-sity for which the town is chiefly noted was founded in 1386. Duringthe Reformation Heidelberg bore an important part. In 1562 the cele-brated Heidelberg Catechism was printed. During the Thirty YearsWar the town was captured by Tilly, August 20, 1620. Eleven yearslater it was recaptured by the Swedes, and again became an imperialcity. It was captured by Turrene and his robber hordes during theFrench invasion, and in 1693 the beautiful and populous city was turnedfor a time into an unpopulated desert, the result of French arson andmurder. In the division of 1805 Heidelberg became ix part of the GrandDutchy of Baden. It now has about 40,000 inhabitants. 38 The German Sectarians of The Fraternity of the Rosy Cross. 39 in Heidelberg, which Beissel, in common with his com-panions, attended. One of these services made such animpression on his mind that he forsook the company of hisfellow journeymen, and devoted his time and thoughts tothe religious truths promulgated at the meetings. When finally the news arrived from the seat of war thatthe whole battalion of bakers had been massacred to aman, he recognized in his rejection as a recruit the specialhand of Providence, in thus saving him from the cruel fateof his fellows, and, thanking Almighty God for his miracu-lous deliverance, he at once became an active the same time he also became a student of religiousmatters, as well as of subjects relating to his close application to the latter he soon became the mostcelebrated baker in the city, and the bread which he bakedfor hi
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