Calvin and Geneva: The Protestant Reformer

On 10 July 2009 the world will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin (1509-64), the controversial and influential French protestant theologian and reformer. At almost fifty-five he died in Geneva on 27 May 1564 and was buried in the Plainpalais Cemetery, Rue des Rois, Geneva, Switzerland. In the sixteenth century the...

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What exactly did Jean Calvin (1509–1564) do for Geneva?

JEAN CALVIN (1509–1564) What exactly did Jean Calvin do for Geneva ? In 1509 Jean Cauvin (as the name was written at that time) was born in the town of Noyon in Picardy, Northern France, into a wealthy family. When he was 12 he was sent to school in Paris with the intention of becoming a...

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