[627] Olivetan's Bible, _Apologie du translateur_. [628] Council Registers, Bellard, 1533. [629] St. John xv. 4, 5. [630] 'Wie man Kirchen Diener wählen und einsetzen soll.'—Luth. _Opp._ lib. xviii. p. 433. [631] Calvin. [632] Spon, _Hist. de Genève_. [633] It seems clear from Froment's narrative (p. 48) that the first communion took place before the riots (p. 51), and therefore probably before the middle of March. Spon confirms Froment's account (i. p. 481). On the other hand Sister Jeanne de Jussie says that a sacrament was celebrated after the first riot, on Holy Saturday, April 10th (_Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 61). The only way of reconciling these two statements is to admit (as we have done) two different celebrations (in March and April), and not one only. [634] 'Furtivo conventu.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restit._ p. 45. [635] Froment, Gestes, pp. 48-51. Gautier MS. Spon, _Hist. de Genève_, i. p. 481. [636] _Vie de Farel._ Choupard MS. CHAPTER XIV. FORMATION OF A CATHOLIC CONSPIRACY. (LENT, 1533.) Evangelical zeal was the occasion of the persecution. Its enemies were angered; they could not understand the inappreciable life then fermenting among their people. If a meeting was suppressed in one house, it was held in another. 'They could not find any remedy against this.' One, however, offered itself. A dominican monk, an inquisitor of the Faith, had just arrived in Geneva. 'He is a great orator,' was the report in the city, 'a fervent catholic, just the opposite of Bocquet.' He had come to preach the Lent sermons in the greyfriar's stead, and everybody hoped he would repair the evil the other had done. 'Deliver us from this heresy,' said the heads of the Dominicans to him. The monk, flattered by this confidence and proud of his mission, prepared a fine discourse, and the next day or the next but one after Guerin's departure he went into the pulpit. St. Dominic's church was crowded, and a good many evangelicals, including Olivetan, were present. After a short introduction the monk began with loud voice and ardent zeal to decry the Bible, to abuse the heretics,[637] and to exalt the pope. 'He uttered without restraint all that came into his head.' 'I will blacken them so,' he had said, 'that they shall never be washed clean.' [Sidenote: OLIVETAN BANISHED FROM GENEVA.]