János Gerendi

[7] Gerendi held manor houses at Gerend and Alcina (now Luncani and Alțâna in Romania), where he granted asylum to the most radical theologians of his age.

[5] He persuaded Gerendi to declare Saturday as the day of rest in his estates and to introduce some Old-Testament rules relating to diet (the ban on eating blood and animals that had been strangled).

[6][8] Incited by Lutheran priests, peasants from Kerc (now Cârța in Romania) murdered Gerendi's nephew who promoted the work on Sundays in 1585.

[9] Although a Jesuit friar, István Szántó, credited him with the introduction of Sabbatarianism in Transylvania,[7] Gerendi actually did not obey all the Old Testament laws.

[6][7] The leading Unitarian theologian, Giorgio Biandrata, achieved an investigation at Gerendi's estates, which forced Bogáti Fazekas to flee from the principality in 1582.