History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. Vol. 3 (of 8)Merle d'Aubigné, J. H. (Jean Henri)
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History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. Vol. 3 (of 8)
Merle d'Aubigné, J. H. (Jean Henri)
Reformation
A crowd of priests immediately gathered round him and began to lament
loudly, not because a man had been stabbed, but because blood had
defiled the temple. 'Never after was bell rung or divine service
performed in that church, or even in the other churches, because the
mother-church was closed, until it was purified by My lord the
suffragan,' says Sister Jeanne.
Goulaz, it is reported, seeing his friend on the ground, ran off to the
evangelicals and told them all. Some of them, notwithstanding the danger
which they incurred, proceeded to the cathedral, and obtained the
syndics' permission to carry Vandel away. They removed him to
Baudichon's house, where they got him to bed. A few huguenots
constituted themselves his nurses, and as they looked on their pale and
blood-stained friend, they asked one another what would happen next.
[637] Lutheranos proscindentem.'—Turretini MS.
[638] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 49.—Gautier MS.
[639] Council Registers, 20th March, 1533.—Gautier MS.
[640] 'Violentia qua in Farellum sævitum.'—Spanheim, _Geneva
restit._ p. 57.
[641] Letter from Berne, 20th March, 1533.—MS. Archives of Geneva, No.
1090.
[642] Council Registers, 25th March, 1533.—Gautier MS.
[643] 'Accendunt clerici plebem sibi obnoxiam.'—Spanheim, _Geneva
restit._ p. 57.
[644] Council Registers, 26th March, 1533.—Gautier MS.; Roset
_Chron._ liv. ii. ch. ix.
[645] The word Reform is applied exclusively to the Franco-Helvetic or
Calvinistic portion of the Reformation.
[646] 'Nocte furiis facibusque strenue a clero subditis.'—Spanheim,
_Geneva restit._
[647] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 51.
[648] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 51.
[649] 'Solenni sacramento.'—Spanheim, _Geneva restit._
[650] Froment, _Gestes_, p. 50.—Roset MS., _Chron._ liv. ii.
ch. x.—Gautier MS.
[651] The register has the word _ovaille_ (ovallium), Council
Registers, 28th March, 1533.
[652] Roset MS. _Chron._ liv. ii. ch. x.—Gautier MS. Council Register
_ad diem_. La Sœur de Jussie, _Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 51.
[653] _Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 51.
[654] Galiffe, _Notices généalogiques de Genève_, I. p. 80.
[655] La Sœur de Jussie, _Le Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 52.—Froment,
_Gestes de Genève_, pp. 50-51.
CHAPTER XV.
FIRST ARMED ATTACK OF THE CATHOLICS UPON THE REFORMATION.
(MARCH 28, 1533).
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