Mennonites off the mall: 'Martyrs' exhibit canceled. ('The Mirror of the Martyrs' exhibit scheduled for showing at the Smithsonian Institution) (Column) From: The Christian Century | Date: July 14, 1993| Author: Price, Tom | COPYRIGHT 1993 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

MENNONITES awaited with excitement the opening this spring of "The Mirror of the Martyrs" at the Smithsonian Institution's Experimental Gallery. An exhibit that had appeared twice in Amish machine sheds was receiving a stamp of national cultural approval from the Smithsonian.

The exhibit features life-size illustrations made from eight of the 30 surviving copper-plate etchings that were among the 104 drawings in the 1685 edition of The Martyr's Mirror of the Defenceless ...

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