The Passage: The first public controversy regarding Zwingli's preaching broke out during the season of Lent in 1522. On the first fasting Sunday, 9 March, Zwingli and about a dozen other participants consciously transgressed the fasting rule by cutting and distributing two smoked sausages (the Wurstessen in Christoph Froschauer's workshop). Zwingli defended this act in a sermon which was published on 16 April, under the title Von Erkiesen und Freiheit der Speisen (Regarding the Choice and Freedom of Foods). He noted that no valid general rule on food can be derived from the Bible and that to transgress such a rule is not a sin. The event, which came to be referred to as the Einfair of the Sausages, is considered to be the start of the Reformation in Switzerland. Even before the publication of this issue of Petition Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition of Petition.
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