In 868, at Metz they agreed definitely to a partition of Lotharingia ; but when Lothair II died in 869, Louis the German was lying seriously ill, and his armies were engaged with the Moravians.

' The Moravians and later Congregationalist missionaries ran boarding schools, and a select few students were educated at the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions school in Connecticut.

Although Innu have been only in Sheshatshiu since fur trading posts were established by the Hudson's Bay Company in Northwest River in the mid-1700s and only in Davis Inlet / Natuashish since the Moravians set up along the Inuit Coast in 1771, Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams struck a deal on September 26, 2008, with Labrador's Innu to permit construction of a hydroelectric megaproject to proceed on the proposed Lower Churchill site.

For a century, only Moravians were permitted to live in Lititz.

The Moravians were a religious group whose formal name was the “ Unitas Fratrum ” or Unity of the Brethren.

Moravians worldwide were selling possessions and even some other entire communities to pay off debts incurred years earlier by Count von Zinzendorf, who heavily mortgaged his lands to give them opportunity back in Germany.

Another was the Moravians led by Count Zinzendorf who adopted a form consisting of a simple sharing of a simple meal, and then testimonies or a devotional address were given and letters from missionaries read.

Many of these immigrants were Scots-Irish, Germans from the Rhineland-Palatinate area, and Moravians.

After the end of World War II, and following the Beneš decrees, these German speaking Moravians were evicted ; it is estimated that hundreds died on the arduous trek to Austria.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

The Moravians were allowed to establish a station at Neu-Herrnhut ( which became the nucleus of modern Nuuk, Greenland's capital ) and in time a string of missions along the island's west coast.

The ancestors of the Slovaks and Moravians were later united in Great Moravia between 833 and 907.

During the main years of German emigration to Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century, most of the emigrants were Lutherans, Reformed, or members of small sects — Mennonites, Dunkers, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, and some German Baptist groups.

Among Protestants, Anglicans, Baptists, Puritans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quaker, and Moravians were the first to settle to the US, spreading their faith in the new country.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

This sentimental, anti-intellectual form of pietism is seen in the thought and teaching of Zinzendorf, founder of the Moravians ; but more intellectually rigorous forms of pietism are seen in the teachings of John Wesley, which were themselves influenced by Zinzendorf, and in the teachings of American preachers Jonathan Edwards, who restored to pietism Gerson's focus on obedience and borrowed from early church teachers Origen and Gregory of Nyssa the notion that humans yearn for God, and John Woolman, who combined a mystical view of the world with a deep concern for social issues ; like Wesley, Woolman was influenced by Jakob Boehme, William Law and The Imitation of Christ.

In Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, Quakers and Moravians were influential in persuading slaveholders to free their slaves.

The first European settlers in the area were Moravians, a Christian religious group from Germany that settled in the Thirteen Colonies seeking freedom of religion and to evangelize among the Native Americans.

The first Europeans to have contact with local Inuit were Moravians.

They were forced by the Electoral Saxon government to emigrate to Pennsylvania, and Zinzendorf sent 2 Moravians to accompany them in 1734 – 35, in order to scout out the mission possibilities in America.

Later, colonies were also founded in North Carolina, where Moravians led by Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg purchased 98, 985 acres ( 400. 58 km2 ) from John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville.

In the 1980s there were discussions in England by which an agreement was created that would have created full communion between the Moravians, Presbyterians, Methodists, and the Church of England.

Aribo never reconciled with Arnulf after the Wilhelimner War and his contacts with the Moravians were kept secure.

A letter written by the margrave soon announced that the legates were returning from Svatopluk and the Moravians who had agreed " to give themselves in friendship ".

It is one of the relatively few Sundays some Reformed denominations may offer the communion meal, and is one of the days of the year specially appointed among Moravians for the celebration of their Love Feasts.

Members of the Evangelical Brotherhood, the Dutch name for the Moravians, settled in Zeist in 1746, building for their community an impressive array of 18th century Classisist houses planned around two squares.

Throughout the 1760s, Moravians from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania traveled through this area on their way to New England to establish new communities.

On June 20, 1775 the Moravians in their diary, noted that James Parke Farley had located on his plantation on the Dan River, " 100 negroes whom he bought from Antigua.

* 1764-The Moravians make a decision to expand and begin publicizing their missionary activity, particularly in the British colonies ; Moravian Jens Haven makes the first of three exploratory missionary journeys to Greenland

The Moravians ministered to regional Lenape Native Americans through their mission in the area, as well as further east in the New York colony.

Casimir Count of Isenburg-Buedingen demanded the submission of the Moravians of Herrnhaag to himself, and that they reject their allegiance to the elder Zinzendorf.

John Wesley the founder of Methodism travelled to America in the company of the Moravians and greatly admired their faith and practice.

Both in Salem and Bethlehem, Moravians continued to use music in their ceremonies.

Both in Salem and Bethlehem, Moravians continued to use music in their ceremonies.

) to address Bohemians, Moravians and sometimes even Silesians in their speeches.

Although supporters defended their work, at the end of 1744, the colonial government based at Poughkeepsie expelled the Moravians from New York.

Friedensthal Moravian Church Christiansted, United States Virgin Islands | Christiansted, St Croix, USVI founded in 1755The Moravians continue their long tradition of missionary work, for example in the Caribbean, where the Jamaican Moravian Church has begun work in Cuba and in West Africa where the Moravian Church in Tanzania has missions in Zaire and Uganda.

Believing that Svatopluk was dead, the Moravians selected another member of their ruling family named Slavomír and made him their ruler.

Jan Amos Comenius wrote in 1620: " Moravians of the mountains around Vsetín, called Wallachians, are a warlike people … they refused to accept the Habsburg yoke and for three whole years defended their freedom with the sword ".

The frankness and earnestness of the simple Moravians had won respect with the many tribes of Pennsylvania Indians, and they lived without incident until 1755.

After its completion, word came that Whitefield had returned to Pennsylvania, bristling and angered by theological disputes with certain Moravians, particularly on the issue of predestination.

The Austrian army, called Kaiserlich-königliche Armee ( Imperial and Royal Army ), was composed of multinational troops from across the Empire, including proper Austrians, Bohemians, Moravians, Hungarians, Romanians, Croatians, Poles and other ethnic groups, with regiments speaking various languages.

Henry divided his forces into four sections: the Bavarian miners led by Boleslav of Moravia ; the conscripts from Greater Poland along with some Cracovians led by Sulisław ; the brother of the killed palatine of Kraków ; the army of Opole under Mieszko, possibly with some Teutonic Knights ; and, under Henry's personal command, the Silesians, Moravians, Templars and Hospitallers.

* Pietism in 17th century Germany, led by Philipp Jakob Spener and the Moravians, which emphasized the spiritual life of the individual, coupled with a responsibility to live an upright life.

Zinzendorf wrote hymns, and led the Moravians to America, where they began missionary work in Georgia but with little success.

As such, diverse groups such as Adventists, Anabaptists, Baptists, Charismatics, Congregationalists, Evangelicals, Holiness churches, Lutherans, Methodists, Moravians, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Reformed, and Unitarians ( depending on one's classification scheme ) are all a part of the same family, and with further doctrinal variations within each group.

In 1739 Wesley broke with the Moravians and founded the Methodist Society of England.

Zinzendorf wrote hymns, and led the Moravians to America, where they began missionary work in Georgia but with little success.

After Uwatie converted to Christianity with the Moravians, he took the name of David Uwatie ; he and Susanna renamed Degataga as Isaac.

Similarly well-versed in the mystic tradition was the German Johann Arndt, who, along with the English Puritans, influenced such continental Pietists as Philipp Jakob Spener, Gottfried Arnold, Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf of the Moravians, and the hymnodist Gerhard Tersteegen.

Moravians and the closely related Czech Unity of the Brethren generally agree with Lutheran teachings.

* In 1783, Moravians in Salem, North Carolina, held a celebration of July 4 with a challenging music program assembled by Johann Friedrich Peter.

( Note: This CD has a lot of music from the 18th century Moravian community in North America, but includes several pieces by Herbst, who was popular with the Moravians.

Moravians founded missions with Algonquian-speaking Mohican in the British colony of New York in British North America.

In addition, in some older congregations, Moravians are buried in a traditional God's Acre, a graveyard with only flat gravestones, signifying the equality of the dead before God and organized by gender, age and marital status rather than family.

Immigrants, like the German Moravians who settled in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, brought the band tradition with them to the United States.