St. Peter

This guide to St. Peter's in Zurich starts with a single ruling the city council handed down on the twenty-ninth of January, fifteen twenty-three, ordering preachers to teach only what scripture could prove. You'll hear how that sentence pulled the city's only parish away from Rome, and how the reformer Huldrych Zwingli's case at the town hall became personal for every household that worshipped here. It follows Leo Jud, Zwingli's closest friend, who took the pulpit that same year and spent two decades preaching in plain German rather than Latin. Stand inside and look toward that pulpit before you look up at anything else.