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Sara Holmsten
Sara Holmsten (1713–1795) was a Swedish memoirist and member of the Moravian Church also known as the Evangelical Brotherhood. Life and work Sara Holmsten was the daughter of a farmer living on the Baltic island of Åland, (then Sweden but now Finland), but the devastation wrought by the Russian Army during the Great Nordic War (1700–1721) reduced her to beggary. By becoming a domestic worker and factory employee in Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ..., she was able to take care of herself sufficiently. In the 1750s, she became a member of the Moravian church in Stockholm. In that capacity, she eventually took employment with leading members of the congregation. When she was 68, again destitute, she took up residence at Johannes’s poorhouse in Stoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moravian Church
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren ( or ), formally the (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the original Unity of the Brethren () founded in the Kingdom of Bohemia, sixty years before Martin Luther's Reformation. The church's heritage can be traced to 1457 and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, which included Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and previously the Hussite movement against several practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church. Its name is derived from exiles who fled from Moravia to Saxony in 1722 to escape the Counter-Reformation, establishing the Christian community of Herrnhut. Hence, it is also known in German as the ("Unity of Brethren f Herrnhut). The modern has about one million members worldwide, continuing their tradition of missionary work, such as in the Americas and Africa, which is reflected in their broad g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Islands In The Baltic Sea
This is a list of islands in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea proper is bordered to the north by the Bothnian Sea and, further north, the Gulf of Bothnia, neither being part of the Baltic Sea proper. The eastern basins the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga are likewise not considered part of the Baltic Sea proper. Whether islands situated in, or on the borders to, these basins (Åland, Hailuoto and Kotlin Island, Kotlin) shall be included in the list is therefore a matter of definition. The Danish islands Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (7,000 km² 2,200,000 people), Funen (2,984 km² 400,000 people), Als (island), Als (312 km² 51,300 people), and Langeland (284 km² 13,300 people) lie in the Danish straits connecting the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat. Listed by size By population See also *List of islands of Denmark *List of islands of Estonia *List of islands of Finland *List of islands of Germany *List of islands of Lithuania *List of islands o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
