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Huldrych Zwingli was born on January 1st, 1484 as the son of a rich farmer in Toggenburg near Sankt Gallen.
After studying the seven liberal arts and theology in Vienna and Basel, he was ordained a priest in 1506 and received a position in Glarus.
Several times he went to Italy as a field preacher with the federal “heap of violence” and took part in the battle of Marignano against the French in 1515, which marked the end of the Swiss great power.
The experience made him a fierce opponent of mercenary: "The war seems sweet to the ignorant."
As a priest in the famous Benedictine monastery in Einsiedeln, he experienced the grievances in everyday church life and began to preach against indulgences.
In 1519, despite a woman's story in Einsiedeln, he was appointed to the renowned Grossmünsterstift in Zurich.
There he began to interpret the entire Gospel of Matthew in popular language.
Having survived the plague, he became convinced that salvation could only be achieved through the grace of God.
But the way to get there can only be achieved through the correct interpretation of the Bible.
With the Bible in hand, Zwingli began to preach against everything “non-biblical”, initially against images, relics and saints, and finally against celibacy and the Eucharist.
The break with the Catholic Church occurred when he took part in a public sausage dinner in the pre-Easter Lent in 1522 and thus violated the law of fasting.
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The demand of Pope Hadrian VI.
to the Zurich advice to outlaw Zwingli as a heretic, led to three "disputations", at the end of which the city committed to the Reformation.
Mass and confirmation were abolished, and iconoclasm began.
Zwingli married the widow Anna Reinhart.
The Grossmünsterstift was transformed into a theological school, the so-called Prophezey.
In 1525 he issued his creed "Of true and false religion".
While Zwingli distanced himself from the radical Anabaptists, he sought a compromise with Luther and his followers.
But that failed because of the different understanding of the Lord's Supper, which was a sacrament for the Wittenberg, but only a symbolic act of remembrance for the Zurich citizen.
With that the break between Lutherans and Reformed was accomplished.
In 1531 Zwingli lost battle and life near Kappel
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A denominational and political conflict arose with the cantons of Central Switzerland, which adhered to the Catholic faith.
In the two Kappel Wars, Zwingli's attempt to introduce the Reformation by force in Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Zug failed.
However, in the battle of Kappel on October 11, 1531, the poorly managed Zurich contingent was badly defeated.
Zwingli fell, his body was quartered and burned, the ashes were scattered.
The Reformation was limited to Zurich, Bern, Geneva and eastern Switzerland.
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