The Hutterites Almost Disappeared Only 19 Refused

In the 1760s, a Jesuit priest was sent to make my people Catholic. When he was finished, nineteen were left who would not give up the faith. Today there are more than 58,000 Hutterites. This is how close we came to disappearing, more than once, and who brought us back each time: Lutheran refugees from the Austrian Alps, a blacksmith with a dream, and about 400 people on the Dakota prairie who chose the hard way. My name is Andreas Wurz. I keep the books on a Hutterite colony of 150 people in southern Alberta. IN THIS VIDEO - From about 20,000 Hutterites in Moravia to fewer than 100 - The Carinthian refugees who restarted communal living at Alwinz, and the Wurz family among them - The Jesuit Delphini, the 19 who refused, and the 1767 night flight over the Carpathians - Radichev, the 1818 fire, and the 40 years we stopped sharing everything - The blacksmith, Darius Walter and the teacher: where the Schmiedeleut, Dariusleut and Lehrerleut come from - 1874–1879: why only about 400 of some 1,250 emigrants went into the colonies - What happened to the Prairieleut, and what it has to do with my ledger Tell me in the comments: do you know where your family name comes from? Not roughly. The village, the farm, the year somebody left. SOURCES Carinthian Revival – hutterites.org: https://hutterites.org/history/carinthian-revival/ Renewal – hutterites.org: https://hutterites.org/history/renewal/ Origins of the Leut – hutterites.org: https://hutterites.org/the-leut/origins-leut/ Journey to America – hutterites.org: https://hutterites.org/history/journey-to-america/ A Brief History of the Hutterian Brethren 1755–1879 – FEEFHS: https://feefhs.org/node/691 FEEFHS Hutterite family records: https://feefhs.org/node/695 Census documents growth of Hutterite population – Anabaptist World: https://anabaptistworld.org/?p=113634 Paul Tschetter (review) – Direction Journal: https://directionjournal.org/39/1/paul-tschetter-story-of-hutterite.html Prairie People: Forgotten Anabaptists (review) – Direction Journal: https://directionjournal.org/30/1/prairie-people-forgotten-anabaptists.html Schmiedeleut genealogy study – PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2987252/ Lehrerleut – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehrerleut Schmiedeleut – Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmiedeleut About the narrator: Andreas Wurz is a composite character. His voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.