"A Christian keeping the commandment of God and the faith of
Jesus, being baptised about the year 1648, and keeping the
seventh day for the Sabbath above thirty-two years." Monument
over the grave of Dr. Peter Chamberlain "But as they rejected
Sunday and rested on the Sabbath, Prince Sigmond Bathory ordered
their persecution. Pechi advanced to position of chancellor of
state and next in line to throne of Transylvania. He studied his
Bible, and composed a number of hymns, mostly in honour of the
Sabbath. Pechi was arrested and died in 1640. Sweden And Finland
"We can trace these opinions over almost the whole extent of
Sweden of that day-from Finland and northern Sweden. "In the
district of Upsala the farmers kept Saturday in place of Sunday.
"About the year 1625 this religious tendency became so
pronounced in these countries that not only large numbers of the
common people began to keep Saturday as the rest day, but even
many priests did the same." History of the Swedish Church,
Vol.I, p.256 Muscovit Russian