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ULRICH, the Swi reformer, was born in the canton of St. Gall. He learned the evangelical doctrines, which he afterwards preached so succe fully, from his teacher and friend, Thomas Wyttenbach, a reformer before the Reformation. His first overt revolt against the Romanist system was when he was a priest at Einsiedeln (1516), whither pilgrims resorted to a miracle-working image of the Virgin. He denounced the superstition of pilgrimages so effectively that his sermons were discu ed in Rome, and, it is said, that he was offered promotion as a bribe for his silence. In 1518 he became preacher in Zurich Cathedral, and eventually made the place thoroughly Protestant. In 1528 lie had a resultle conference with Luther and Me lanch thon on the doctrine of Transubstantiation, which he repudiated. In 1531 the Forest Cantons (having adhered to the Romish faith) made war upon him, and he was mortally wounded in an engagement near Zurich, having accompanied his troops as chaplain.