970, the Byzantine emperor John I Tzimiskes of the Macedonian dynasty strengthens the Balkan Cathars by transplanting 200,000 more Armenian Paulicians to Europe and settled them in the neighbourhood of Philippopolis (today's Plovdiv, Bulgaria).
986 Judaized Khazars claiming that they killed Jesus fail to convert Vladimir I of Kiev to their faith.
1018 Bulgarian Empire is annexed.
1054 The Great Schism means that Roman Catholics begin to crack down on Sabbath keepers.
1057-1075 Cathar Patarenes reach Milan.
Diocese of Bosnia came into existence between 1060 and 1075
1119-1312 Mohammedan Christian Templars
1143 Catharism can be clearly identified in Cologne.
1180s John Kinnamos describes the the Gálycians as practising Mosaic law while other sources call them Meshulam.
1185–1396 the Paulician Alevi Asen dynasty establish the Second Bulgarian Empire.
Cathar Lollards in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 14th century who were akin to the Fraticelli, Beghards, and other sectaries similar to the recusant Franciscans.
Cathar Boghards
Cathar Waldenses - The Petter Chamor - Peter Waldo of Lyon
Bohemian Brethren already in 1310
The Dominican Bernard Gui, Inquisitor of Toulouse from 1308 to 1323, published a manual detailing how to dispose of Cathars. In Bohemia, as much as one quarter of the population kept seventh-day the sabbath in 1310.
By 1350, all known remnants of the movement had been extinguished in Octania. Many Occitan courts had been patrons of the troubadours, and their destruction resulted in the gradual deterioration of troubadour practice and the immigration of most troubadours from Southern France to royal courts in Italy, Spain and Hungary.
The Bohemian reformation was also inspired by the ideas of Conrad Waldhauser d.1369 and Johann Milíč of Kroměříž d.1374 as well as the Lollard theologian and philosopher John Wycliffe 1328-1384; Matthew of Kraków 1335-1410; Matthias de Janow 1350–1394 and Jan Hus 1370–1415
Petr Chelčický 1390-1460
1420s-1430s The Hussite Bible is written in Hungarian.
Zakharia 1470-1491
Two priests, Dionysius and Alexis, convinced by Zacharias, and four Jews who had recently come from the South, spread the news of this doctrine broad, and arch-priest Gabriel was among the many who were converted. In 1491, Skhariya the Jew was executed in Novgorod by the order of Ivan III. In 1504, diak (secretary) Ivan-Volk Kuritsyn, Dmitry Konoplev and Ivan Maksimov were burnt at the stake. Other adherents were banished, imprisoned, or excommunicated. Feodor Kuritsyn's adherents' club ceased to exist.
William Tyndale 1494–1436 included the Apocrypha
Katarina von Bora Luther 1499–1552 (I exclude her raging prolific husband as he was too impatient through his apocalyptic diatribes against the Jews which did not help as the Nazi’s used his work to scapegoat for the Holocaust. Calvin would be included with Luther and their opposition to the ana-baptists)
7th Day Anabaptists
Swiss Brethren 1525
Wilhelm Reublin 1484-1559
Jacob Hutter 1500-1536
Oswald Glaidt
Andreas Fischer
Menno Simmons 1496-1561
The Bloody Theater—more commonly known as Martyrs Mirror— assembled by the Dutch Mennonite minister Thieleman van Braght and published in 1660
John Smyth 1607
Seventh Day Men 1600
Hamlet Jackson 1614
Hamlet established the Mill Yard Seventh Day Anabaptist Church in 1617 which converted Theophilus Brabourne by 1628 and Henry Jesse by 1645. In 1650, Brabourne's pupil, James Ockford, published in London the book The Doctrine of the Fourth Commandment, Deformed by Popery, Reformed & Restored to its Primitive Purity. The work convinced a Baptist called Peter Chamberlen who led the first Baptist service at Millyard Church in 1651.
Jacobus Arminius 1560–1609 (with all due respect to my Calvinist brethren, think political manipulation and worldly state nationalism, not the doctrines of grace in a vaccum, no matter how true and precious they may be, yet he adapted ana-baptist ideas)
Stephen Mumford 1664
Stephen fled to the Americas establishing the Seventh Day Anabaptist Church in Newport which converted John Rogers & James Rogers Jr. in 1674.
Many Shabbatis fled the Ottomam Empire at this time due to the imprisonment of the Shabbati teacher and ‘so-called failed Jewish Messiah Tsvi Ben Mordechai in 1666 who provoked so much Jewish history after his ‘so-called’ conversion under the Ottoman caliphate.
John Wesley 1703-1791
John Wesley was an Anglican convert to Moravian Anabaptism in 1735 which he left to establish Methodism in late 1739 having decided that Moravians were guilty of a heresy in what he called ‘quietism.’ Nevertheless, he continued to promote self-discipline as an essential element in self-reformation. The dichotomy within modernity of the individual and the collective is perhaps the most difficult to reconcile.
Baptist Confession 1660 with ana-baptist influences, yet with an explicit denial of the movement influencing the emerging Calvinist Baptist hegemony.
(XIX. That the poor Saints belonging to the Church of Christ, are to be sufficiently provided for by the Churches ) After Charles II, the non-conformists like John Bunyan were jailed, yet Cromwellian sentiments remained, still the document was wholistic. The famous 1689 London Confession, virtually following the famous 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith (a religious statement coupled with Westphalian Christian Nation State fervor), some who were also Lord’s Day Sabbatarians, however explicity states that the ‘Jewish’ Sabbath had been abolished.
George Whitfield (Calvinist Baptist, Friend of John Wesley) and Presbyterianism was instrumental in the colonial era or grass roots faith aiding the founding of the USA through influential Free Masons and Deists by separation of church and state. Still the English called 1776 and the succesive War of Independence ‘the Presbyterian Revolution,’ thus the ubiquity of Evangelicals influenced by Calvinist and Arminian interpretations mixed with the state church impluse found through out all denominations to one degree or another. As today many sadly have remained divided under such Westphalian political hegemony coupled with the trumph of The House of Orange in 1688 who set into motion the divide, i.e. the Christian Right and the Progressive Left. Nevertheless, a diverse array of Christian denominations found haven in the original 13 Colonies. i.e. Pennsylvannia - Quaker with Anabaptists; Rhode Island - Baptist; Maryland - Roman Catholic; New England - Congregationalist; Virgina - Presbyterian et al, the first historical layer of America’s ‘Christian Nation’ temptation.
Rachel Harris 1809-1868
in 1844, Rachel Harris Oaks Preston, a Wesleyan 7th day Anabaptists was responsible for inadvertently kickstarting the Church of God 7th day and the Whiteist movements when she converted a Millerite Methodist minister Frederick Wheeler to Seventh Day Sabbatarianism. Ellen G. White took the Sabbath into the Adventist Zeitgiest in a simular direction like the audacity of the Anglican John Nelson Darby.
Messianic Shabbati Hebrews
The Subbotniki were a peaceful group of Messianic Kibbutzniks who identified as Hebrews but not as Jews. Their independence was compromised by organizations like
Irgun in 1940s before the current State of Israel and thereafter.
The Christian & Missionary Alliance 1884 Not normally 7th Day but hopefully Lord’s Day Sabbatarians as former Presbyterian Minster A.B. Simpson and his wife Maggie’s remains rest in property that NOW (2021) belongs to a Viznitz Hassidic Yeshiva, a pacifist group differing from Chabad whose Kiruv project affirms political Zionism. Yet groups like the Haredim Viznitz, mostly, and Satmar absolutely, reject such Zionism. I think A.B. and Maggie are quite happy where they rest.
