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The first Italian-language edition of the Book of Mormon was published in London in 1852. [ 5 ] In 1853 a group of approximately 70 Waldensians , including men, women, and children left their homes in the Piedmont Valleys and migrated to Salt Lake City , Utah Territory, after being converted by Lorenzo Snow .
Dramatizes the conflict a young LDS woman faces in trying to decide if she will marry in the temple or outside of the temple. Filmed in California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Pioneers in Petticoats: 1969 44 min. Young women form the Young Women's Retrenchment Society as resistance against worldly trends. Starring Gordon Jump.
Missionary work for LDS Church began in Switzerland on November 24, 1850, when the Swiss Mission was created. [4] The Swiss Mission later became the Swiss and Italian Mission and the Swiss, Italian, and German Mission. [4] Many early converts were baptized, but then emigrated to the United States until the 1950s.
May 3: The name of the church is changed from The Church of Jesus Christ to The Church of the Latter Day Saints upon a proposal by Sidney Rigdon, seconded by Newel K. Whitney and passed by the church. May 8: Zion's Camp, an armed party led by Joseph Smith, departs from Ohio to defend the Mormons expelled from Jackson County, Missouri. Shortly ...
In 1981, the church published a new LDS edition of the Standard Works that changed a passage in The Book of Mormon that Lamanites (considered by many Latter-day Saints to be Native Americans) will "become white and delightsome" after accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ. Instead of continuing the original reference to skin color, the new ...
Portrayals of Mormons and of Mormonism in both literature and movies have drawn criticism, with critics such as d'Arc describing the bulk of what the world heard of Mormons in the 19th and early-20th century, via the literature of the day, as "polygamy, mystic revelations to modern prophets, golden bibles, and scheming missionaries adding continually to their harem of wives", and stating that ...
1850 Erastus Snow, Peter O. Hansen, John E. Forsgren, and George P. Dykes First preached in Copenhagen Italy: 1850 Lorenzo Snow, Joseph Toronto, and Thomas Stenhouse: First preached in Genoa Sweden: 1850 John E. Forsgren Switzerland: 1850 Thomas Stenhouse and Lorenzo Snow: First preached in Geneva Norway: 1851 Hans F. Petersen
24 Nov 1850 Swiss and Italian 1954 Swiss, Italian and German 1861 Swiss and German 1868 Swiss 1898 Swiss-German 1904 Swiss Austrian 1938 Swiss 1938 Swiss Austrian 1946 Swiss 1960 Switzerland 1970 Switzerland Zurich 1974: 1 July 2010 French Italian German Netherlands Czechoslovak Austrian: Sandwich Islands: 12 Dec 1850 27 Mar 1864 Hawaiian 1900 ...