ABSTRACT
The Unitas Fratrum the Unity of the Brethren, commonly called the Moravians, a religious reform movement that developed in the 15th century in Bohemia and Moravia, underwent severe repression in the Thirty Years War. In the early 18th century, remnants of the Bohemian Brethren moved into Saxony and began the development of a “Renewed Church” on the estate of the pious Lutheran nobleman, Nicolaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf. To this center at Herrnhut were drawn Pietists from all over Europe, and in time there developed a new denomination. The desire to bring the Word to the heathen and others left “unchurched” inevitably drew the Moravians to North America. They were in the West Indies by 1732 and made a settlement in Georgia in 1735. The Moravians brought with them to America a tradition of education. Their great Bohemian leader and martyr, John Hus, who was burned at the stake in 1415, had been a popular professor in Prague.
