Bishop Hill Illinois
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Erik Jansson Farmer Jan Mattsson and his wife Sara Eriksdotter
had a son on December 19, 1808, in Biskopskulla, outside Uppsala. His name was Erik Jansson. As an eight-year-old, he received a severe blow to the head, and hovered between life and death for several weeks after an accident from a running horse. In addition, he suffered from severe gout. Already as a child he was of a distinctive nature. kept a lot in his brooding and lonely world, maybe this was what made him an avid and fanatical reader of religious scriptures as well as the bible.
Bishop Hill
The village was founded in 1846 by Swedish immigrants affiliated with the Pietist movement, led by Erik Jansson. Prior to founding the Bishop Hill Colony, Jansson preached to his followers in Sweden about what he considered to be the abominations of the Lutheran Church and emphasized the doctrine that the faithful were without sin. As Jansson's ideas became more radical, he began to lose support from many of his sympathizers and was forced to leave Sweden in the midst of growing persecution. Jansson had previously sent Olof Olsson, a trusted follower, as an emissary to the United States to find a suitable location where the Janssonists could set up a utopian community centered on their religious beliefs. According to Jansson, this community would become the "New Jerusalem", and their beliefs would soon spread across the world. As a result, 1400 colonists emigrated from Sweden to their new home in western Illinois.
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had a son on December 19, 1808, in Biskopskulla, outside Uppsala. His name was Erik Jansson. As an eight-year-old, he received a severe blow to the head, and hovered between life and death for several weeks after an accident from a running horse. In addition, he suffered from severe gout. Already as a child he was of a distinctive nature. kept a lot in his brooding and lonely world, maybe this was what made him an avid and fanatical reader of religious scriptures as well as the bible.
Bishop Hill
The village was founded in 1846 by Swedish immigrants affiliated with the Pietist movement, led by Erik Jansson. Prior to founding the Bishop Hill Colony, Jansson preached to his followers in Sweden about what he considered to be the abominations of the Lutheran Church and emphasized the doctrine that the faithful were without sin. As Jansson's ideas became more radical, he began to lose support from many of his sympathizers and was forced to leave Sweden in the midst of growing persecution. Jansson had previously sent Olof Olsson, a trusted follower, as an emissary to the United States to find a suitable location where the Janssonists could set up a utopian community centered on their religious beliefs. According to Jansson, this community would become the "New Jerusalem", and their beliefs would soon spread across the world. As a result, 1400 colonists emigrated from Sweden to their new home in western Illinois.
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