(St. Gall links)

1472?

Christoph Schappeler was born around this time.

1523

3 May 1523

On a 3-day visit to St. Gall, Balthasar Hubmaier delivered an outdoor sermon to a large gathering of people. From here Hubmaier traveled to Zurich to visit Zwingli.

1525

9 April 1525

Conrad Grebel baptized a large group of Anabaptist converts in the Sitter River. This event marked the culmination of weeks of successful preaching in St. Gall by Conrad and his associates, Wolfgang Ulimann & Gabriel Giger. Conrad soon decided to return to Zurich.

September 1525

Hans Denck arrived in St. Gall and found lodging in the home of an Anabaptist, although he was not yet an Anabaptist himself. He apparently provoked the local Anabaptist community by teaching universal salvation, relying on Acts 3:21 as one of his proof-texts. After a brief stay Denck headed to Augsburg, Germany.

1526

15 February 1526

The town council recorded that 5 Anabaptist couples had "taken to one another" in the choir of the church.

March 1526

Seven Anabaptists were interrogated by city authorities for their lewd behavior: they had run around the streets in their underclothes and then publicly engaged in sex.

October 1526

Felix Manz appeared in St. Gall and soon got arrested for his activities. After a brief incarceration he took an oath to preserve the peace. He was released on 18 October and banished from the territory. Manz headed back towards Gruningen.

1527

24 September 1527

George Blaurock escaped arrest.

1551

25 August 1551

Christoph Schappeler died.