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At this time Joachim Vadian of a noble family in the canton of St Gall returning from his studies in Vienna put his hand to the plough of the Reformation. Although he filled the office of burgomaster he did not disdain to lecture to his townsmen on the Acts of the Apostles that he might exhibit to them the model of the primitive Church in simplicity and uncorruptedness how different from the pattern of their own day