[Footnote 639: 'Creari tales oporteret.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 746.] [Footnote 640: 'Locum de justificatione, ut a nostris tractatur, _probare regem_.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 1017.] [Footnote 641: 'Viva vivorum membrorum Christi communione.'—Buceri Consilium MS.] [Footnote 642: 'Hic unus nodus de missa videtur inexplicabilis esse.'— _Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 781.] [Footnote 643: 'Orationes et legendas multas ineptas et impias abrogandas aut saltem emendandas.'—Ibid. p. 1015.] [Footnote 644: 'Veram Christi in cœna præsentiam exprimi.'—Buceri Cons.] [Footnote 645: 'Plurimi in manifesta turpitudine vivunt.'—_Corp. Ref._ ii. p. 764.] [Footnote 646: Schmidt, _Zeitschrift für Hist. Theolog._ 1850, p. 35.] [Footnote 647: 'Ut Christus ecclesiam suam ... redigat in concordiam piam et perpetuam.'—_Corp. Ref._] [Footnote 648: 'Hos articulos Francisco regi non displicuisse multa sunt quæ suadent.'—Gerdesius, _Hist. Evang. renov._ iv. p. 124.] CHAPTER XXXV. THE APPARITION AT ORLEANS. (SUMMER 1534.) [Sidenote: THE PROVOST'S WIFE.] Calvin, as it will be remembered, had studied and evangelised at Orleans, and his teaching had left deep traces, particularly among the students and with certain ladies of quality. The wife of the city provost seems to have been one of the souls converted by the ministry of the young reformer. The narrative he has devoted to her, the full details into which he enters, show the interest he took in her conversion.[649] This woman, who occupied a distinguished rank in the city, had found peace for her soul in faith in Christ; she had believed in the promises of the Word which Calvin had explained; she had felt keenly the nothingness of Roman pomps and superstitions; the grace of God was sufficient for her; and caring little for _outward adorning_, she strove after that _which is not corruptible_, the ornament of the _women who trusted in God_. 'She is a Lutheran,' said some; 'she belongs to those who have listened to the teaching of Luther's disciples.' Her husband the provost, a person of influence, a great landowner, an esteemed magistrate, a man of upright, prompt, and energetic character, was touched by the purity of his wife's conduct, and, without being converted to the Gospel, had become disgusted with the Roman superstitions, and despised the monks.