*Quote:* [We left Kreuz on October 3, 1767, at ten o'clock in the morning]. This departure was a pitiable sight: the brothers and sisters and the older boys and girls of fourteen and fifteen years, each with staff in hand and bundle on back, some with a small child on top of the bundle. The four- and five-year-old children had to go on foot. So we set out in the name of God, leaving our well-built houses and much of our household goods behind, unsold. The Kreuz officials, citizens, and farmers watched us go. On the one hand, they were happy to be rid of us; on the other, they were afraid of the authorities in Hermannstadt because they were letting us escape out of our churchyard prison in broad daylight. But no one called a halt, for the believers' road was prepared by God.