"In the Amish country" Lancaster by GUYON

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The Amish people came in America during the 16° Century to flee the persecution of both catholics and protestants. They are anabaptists such as they are baptized only when they are adults.

It is a Frenchman who was at the origin of the Amish religion and its separating between the Mennonits during the 17° Century. Jacob Amman was borned at Sainte Marie aux Mines and he spread a rule closer to the Bible.

An Amish man is dressed simply with a shirt and a hat, black in Winter and a straw hat in Summer. He has a beard without mustach because their persecutors had one. The woman has a long modest gown, often black or grey and her hair is covered by a headgear. The young children have no shoes in Summer.

They are known to refuse the modern life (for some aspects only) and the violence, even to protect themselve.

Their religion prohibits the human image and they normaly refuse to be photographed. Anyway, we were not in a zoo and we did not take photographs of them. This one is a postcard.

They are 16.000 in the Lancaster county and the film "Witness" (with Harisson Ford) gave them a worldwide fame.

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