[2] "The limping messenger is a story written by Comenius "The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heaert" in 1663.
A Bernese Hinkender Bote first appeared from 1695, from 1748 also in a French edition, Véritable Messager boiteux de Berne.
This French edition was in turn published in a German translation in Vevey, as Hinkender Bott von Vivis, from 1794 to 1848.
The almanachs contained calendars with both Catholic and Protestant feast days, the dates of important fairs and astronomical ephemerides, and anecdotal accounts of events of the preceding years sections accompanied with illustrations.
In Vevey, a tradition developed of depicting a real-life leg amputee on the cover; the currently serving "limping messenger" is one Jean-Luc Sansonnens of Fribourg (b.