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Michael Sattler — 20 May was a monk who left the Roman Catholic Church during the Protestant Reformation to become one of the early leaders of the Anabaptist movement. He was particularly influential for his role in developing the Schleitheim Confession.

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His leadership has been seen as stabilizing and giving direction to the early Anabaptist movement after the first leaders had been scattered or martyred. He was convicted of heresy by Roman Catholic authorities and subsequently tortured and then burned to death at the stake. Sattler was born around in Staufen. Peter , and probably became a prior.

Peter's probably in May , when the monastery had been taken by troops from the Black Forest fighting in the German Peasants' War. The date of Sattler's arrival in Zurich is not known, but he was expelled from that city on 18 November, , in a wave of expulsions of foreigners resulting from the disputation on baptism of 6—8 November. Sattler became associated with the Anabaptists and was probably rebaptised in the summer of He was involved in missionary activity around Horb and Rottenburg am Neckar , and eventually traveled to Strasbourg.

While in Strasbourg, he had extended discussions with the Protestant leaders of the city, Martin Bucer and Wolfgang Capito. Both of these men held Sattler in relative esteem for his character, even though they disagreed with him in certain points of doctrine and practice. In May , Sattler was arrested by Austrian authorities, along with his wife and several other Anabaptists.

However, Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg had an interest in due process , [ a ] and wanted Sattler to undergo a trial procedure at Rottenburg am Neckar. Joachim assembled Catholic theologians and a group of twenty-four judges, which he chaired.