Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . rotestant persecutors, as did the Huguenots who fled from the oppression of theCatholic government in France. The colony of Maryland was founded by LordBaltimore in 1634 and named after the French wife of Charles I. In the nine-teenth century the number of Catholics in the United States was vastly increasedby immigration from Ireland, Italy, and other countries, so that there are overthirteen millions to-day who have been baptized into the Roman Catholic C
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . rotestant persecutors, as did the Huguenots who fled from the oppression of theCatholic government in France. The colony of Maryland was founded by LordBaltimore in 1634 and named after the French wife of Charles I. In the nine-teenth century the number of Catholics in the United States was vastly increasedby immigration from Ireland, Italy, and other countries, so that there are overthirteen millions to-day who have been baptized into the Roman Catholic Church. 458 Medieval and Modern Times of all ceremonial and sacraments, including even the LordsSupper. The chief stronghold of the Quakers in America hasalways been Pennsylvania, more particularly Philadelphia andits neighborhood, where they settled under the leadership ofWilliam Friends The Quakers were the first religious sect to denounce war and the Peace , , . Movement ever and always, and they should have the credit of beginningthe movement against war which had gained much headwaybefore the outbreak of the war in Fig. 126. John Wesley John Wesley The last of the great Protestant sects to appear was that ofMethodists the Methodists. Their founder, John Wesley (d. 1791), when at Oxford had established a religious society among hisfellow students. Their piety and the regularity of their habits gained for them the nickname of Methodists. ^ Only gradually did the Methodists separate themselves from the Church of England, of which they at first considered IFor extracts from Wesleys famous Journal, see Rea^ngs in ModernEuropean Histoty, Vol. I, p. i68. * ^^Joaem General Conditions in the Eighteenth Century 459 themselves members. In 1784 the numerous American Metho-dists were formally organized into the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, and early in the nineteenth century the English Metho-dists became an independent organization. At the time ofWesleys death his followe
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