Amtulantes Levitae

The above caption is a Latin title by which a group of self-appointed itinerant preachers of the sixteenth century were called. The phrase means, "walking Levites." It rather appropriately fits this class of itinerant preachers because they refused to be ministerially connected with any particular church but travelled about from place to place as they saw fit. The above caption is a Latin title by which a group of self-appointed itinerant preachers of the sixteenth century were called. The...