* New Birth, a 16th century work by anabaptist preacher Menno Simons, c. 1537, revised c. 1550

* 1561 – Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader ( b. 1496 )

** Menno Simons, Anabaptist religious leader and Mennonite founder ( b. 1496 )

** Menno Simons, Dutch Anabaptist leader ( d. 1561 )

Both denominations are similar in their beliefs, yet they are unique because their traditions were influenced by different founders ( Menno Simons and Alexander Mack respectively ).

* 1543-Anabaptist Menno Simons leaves the Netherlands and begins planting churches in Germany

The town is named after Mennonite leader Menno Simons, and was founded on October 19, 1899 by David Koehn.

Menno Simons, founder of the Mennonite church, found refuge there.

Other confessions had acquired popular, if not legal, legitimacy in the intervening decades and by 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers ; the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest ; and the followers of Huldrych Zwingli were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

" Menno Simons " () is a Dutchification ; his actual, Frisian name was Minne Simens (), which is a patronym meaning " Minne, son of Simen ".

Menno Simons was born in 1496 in Witmarsum, Friesland, Holy Roman Empire.

Around 1526 or 1527, questions surrounding the doctrine of transubstantiation caused Menno Simons to begin a serious and in-depth search of the Holy Scriptures, which he confessed he had not previously studied, even being a priest.

A renewed search of the scriptures left Menno Simons believing that infant baptism is not in the Bible.

The house near Bad Oldesloe that Menno Simons is believed to have worked in

Menno Simons rejected the Catholic Church and the priesthood on 12 January 1536, casting his lot with the Anabaptists.

Menno Simons rejected the violence advocated by the Münster movement, believing it was not Scriptural.

Menno Simons ( 1854 )

Menno Simons ' influence on Anabaptism in the Low Countries was so great that Baptist historian William Estep suggested that their history be divided into three periods: " before Menno, under Menno, and after Menno ".

Girolimon ( 1995 ) compares the teachings of Menno Simons with those of Protestant reformer John Calvin ( 1509 – 64 ), focusing on the issue of excommunication.

Menno Simons drew heavily from Biblical images of the bride of Christ when envisioning a new church during the early 17th century.

Menno Simons based his rejection of infant baptism on the concept of the church as a disciplined group of individuals who have voluntarily committed their lives to Christ.

The Mennonite movement was a reform movement of Anabaptist origins begun by Swiss Brethren and soon thereafter finding greater cohesion based on the teachings of Menno Simons 1496 – 1561, and the 1632 Dordrecht Confession of Faith.

The Mennonites ( or Mennisten or Doopsgezinden ) are named for Menno Simons ( 1496 – 1561 ), a Dutch Roman Catholic priest from the Province of Friesland who converted to Anabaptism around 1536.

Mennonites are the followers of Menno Simons ( 1496 – 1561 ), who was born in Witmarsum, Friesland.

* Menno Simons was born in Witmarsum in 1492 or 1496.

Typical among the new leaders of the later Anabaptist movement, and certainly the most influential of them, was Menno Simons ( 1496 – 1561 ), a Dutch Catholic priest who early in 1536 decided to join the Anabaptists.

* 1902 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist ( d. 1940 )

* January 26 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist ( d. 1940 )

* May 15 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer ( b. 1902 )

* March 17 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer ( b. 1641 )

* Menno Gootjes – guitar

The Dutch author and polemicist Menno ter Braak ( 1902 – 1940 ) grew up in Tiel.

By 1555, the reforms proposed by Luther were no longer the only possibilities of religious expression: Anabaptists, such as the Frisian Menno Simons ( 1492 – 1559 ) and his followers, the followers of John Calvin, who were particularly strong in the southwest and the northwest, or those followers of Huldrych Zwingli, were excluded from considerations and protections under the Peace of Augsburg.

After the demise of the Anabaptist rule in Münster ( 1534 – 1536, under Jan van Leiden ), Menno Simons became the pivotal person who inspired the movement known as the ( Ana ) baptists.

An offshoot of the New Objectivity movement centered around the Forum magazine, which appeared in the years 1932 – 1935 and was edited by the leading Dutch literary critic Menno ter Braak ( 1902 – 1940 ) and the novelist Edgar du Perron ( 1899 – 1940 ).

Alson Menno Weber (; November 7, 1910 – December 29, 2005 ) was a Canadian volleyball player.

Menno, Baron van Coehoorn ( March 1641 – March 17, 1704 ) was a Dutch soldier and military engineer.

', in Studia Bibliographica in Honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwey ( Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1968 ), pp. 448 – 478

Twenty-five years after his renunciation of Catholicism, Menno died on 31 January 1561 at Wüstenfelde, Holstein, and was buried in his garden.

Spielberg hired Menno Meyjes, who had worked on Spielberg's The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun, to begin a new script on January 1, 1986.

After the appeal of their 2008 conviction was denied, Menno Zook, Danny Byler, Mose Yoder, Levi Hotetler, David Zook and Eli Zook refused to pay the small fines associated with their conviction.

A further siege took place in 1702, where General Menno van Coehoorn defended the town successfully for the Dutch and in 1747 when it was taken by the French after incompetent defence by Lt General Pieter de la Rocque.

The most significant siege was that of 1702, carried on by Menno van Coehoorn.

When his brother Pieter was among a group of Anabaptists killed near Bolsward in 1535, Menno experienced a spiritual and mental crisis.

An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn ( Siege of Grave, 1673 < ref >

In denying that Jesus was made from the seed of Mary, the Christology of this church is closer to the teachings of Menno Simons and Melchior Hoffman than any other Mennonite group.

After 1536, Menno Simons was mostly active in organizing congregations in what are now the German states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, but congregations were also founded in his homeland of the Netherlands.

He was the first pacifist writer of the Renaissance, predating Erasmus and Menno Simons by nearly 100 years.

The writings of Menno Simons seem at times to promote immersion as the proper mode, but his practice was by pouring.

" Similarly Menno concluded: " In the same manner the heavenly Seed, namely, the Word of God, was sown in Mary, and by her faith, being conceived in her by the Holy Ghost, became flesh, and was nurtured in her body ; and thus it is called the fruit of her womb, that same as a natural fruit or offspring is called the fruit of its natural mother.

" In 1632, 71 years after the death of Menno Simons, and near the end of the first century of Dutch Anabaptism, mention of Menno's Christology was left out of the Dordrecht Confession of Faith.

Hubmaier was more conservative than some Anabaptists, such as Hans Denck and Leonhard Schiemer who went on to deny the doctrine of the Trinity, or avoided emphasis of the doctrine as Menno Simons.