No, this is not 99 red balloons. This is 67 Walloons. Now let me explain.

Wollonia is the southern region. In fact, it's mostly the southern half of Belgium.

It is French speaking.

Wallonia has its own flag.

It has its own anthem,

and it even has its very own reformation confession.

That confession, the confession of the Walloons,

was signed by 48 men, 18 women, and one infant.

If you do the math, you will see that we have 67 Wolloons.

At the time of the Reformation, Wollonia was a region that was actually part of northeastern France and hence it was French

speaking and it was also a region much like the rest of France in which the

reformation had challenges and difficulties in making its presence felt.

Well, in 1522, at the city of Wessel and Wollonia, an Augustinian monk named Matthew von

Gingrich began introducing Lutheran ideas to the city of Vessel.

By the 1540s, the city very much reflected Luther and the Reformation and had a bit of a reputation as it were in Malonia to a city that would be friendly to those of the Reformation.

At the same time, there was another group of Waloons.

They were further south, and they were not so much influenced by Luther and the German

Reformation.

This group was more influenced by Calvin, and the German Reformation, this group was more influenced by Calvin and the

Reform Church. They were persecuted where they were. They're very close in that

southern area to France and they petition the City Council of Wessel to give them refuge.

By trade, these were weavers, and they were makers of textiles.

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