January 5

Felix Manz was one of the founders of the Swiss Anabaptist Congregation in Switzerland. The group almost immediately came under fire from the Zurich city council, which passed a law making adult baptism a crime punishable by death. I am sure God got a chuckle out of that one. On the 5th in 1527, Felix was bound and tossed in to the River Limmat, which fed Lake Zurich, from which he would not emerge alive. This act made Manz the first martyr of the Radical Reformation in Switzerland. It is probably just me, but I think Manz looks like a young Greg Allman. In addition, while he made a good choice of coats for his portrait, personally, I would have gone with a simple button-down shirt and not whatever it is he is wearing.