The origins of Baptists in France.

Baptist History and Heritage | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

That great Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson was once briefly incarcerated in Bayonne, France, as a prisoner of war. (1)

The experience gave him a burden for that country that he summed up this way: "An evangelized France would be fertile in religious works and would nourish the thinking of all the intelligent classes of Europe." (2) While Judson's dream has never been fully realized, the witness of evangelical Christians and especially French Baptists has been a heroic struggle worth examining.

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