Ludwiggian Reformed Church

The Ludwiggian Reformed Church is a Nazarene denomination, that is the only major religious organisation in Sankt Ludwigshafen. The church was established in 1690, after it was discovered that the saint of the old pagan Siseranist religion, Ludwig of Walstadt was baptised into the Nazarene faith in secret, and only adhered to Siseranism because he sought an alliance with the Jingdaoese Empire. After learning of this, two caravels with fishermen and Siseranist clergy were sent to the South Sea Islands, where the Protestantse Kerk in de Zuidzee-eilanden preaches the Nazarene faith. The caravels travelled west, along the northern shore of Cibola, where they re-supplied in Nova Victoria. After several weeks on sea, they were able to sight Saint Cristopher's tower in Joseph Town on Trinity Island in the South Sea Islands. Near the Joseph Town Cathedral they met with clergy and layman alike, to learn more about the Nazarene faith. The new faith was repugnant to the Siseranist clergy, who declared it a folly and set of to Jingdao in one of the caravels, unable to navigate the high seas of Micras without the help of the fishermen, they sailed towards the southern ice caps, where they were devoured by flesh eating penguins. The fishermen on the other hand found great comfort in the new faith, especially the parable in Mark 1:16-20 where Yeshua calls the fishermen and makes them fisher of men. Forty days and forty nights, the fishermen stayed in Joseph Town and they learned what they could from the Protestant Church of the South Sea Islands, and they were also baptised. When these forty days and forty nights were over they set sail to the east. On the early hours of night on the second day of their travel towards home, a storm arose and the waves on the Southern Sea were so high that the fishermen feared for their lives. Sigmund, the youngest of the fishermen was the only one amongst them who was not frightened, he admonished his fellow crew members to pray to the Lord to give them strength, and keep their faith. The storm proved not to be their end, and when the morning sun rose out of the blue ocean, the caravel was still intact, as was the faith of the crew, and they praised the Lord. With the wind in their sails, they reached Sankt Ludwigshafen in a week, without having to call a port to find supplies. On the quay, many were waiting for them to return. The fishermen told everyone about the storm, and how they had survived it because they remained strong in their faith, and many in Sankt Ludwigshafen started to believe in the Lord and they were baptised by the fishermen.