Moravian Lives

Brief Memoir of the Widow
Sister Anna Rosina Church,
who departed at Petershall,
March 12th. 1841.
I was born Feb. 2, 1756 at
Neustadt in Silesia, during a 
very distressing & troublous period.
My Parents before my birth resisted
in Lauenburg, but from there
they were obliged to remove to 
Neustadt, having lost their all,
by means of a fire, which consum-
ed the greater part of the town.
When I was only a few weeks old,
my Parents were obliged to flee
with me in the midst of winter,
by occasion of the following cir-
cumstance.
The Roman Catholics (for
some reason which I do not know)
had determined to set fire to the
town. My Father standing at
his door was accosted by two
Priests, who requested him to hold