The Báb
Prophet Herald of Bahá'u'lláh
*Born 1819 in Persia
*Declared his Mission in 1844
*Had a 18 disciples titled “Letters of the Living”
*Suffered a large portion of His Ministry in prisons
*Imprisonment instigated by the Islamic Clergy
*Wrote His own book of Scripture called the Bayan
*Foretold of “Him Whom God shall make Manifest”
*Martyred in 1850 by a firing squad for His teachings
*Had many tens of thousands of followers