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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY -<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
Johannes Oecolampadius (also Œcolampadius, in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24<br />
November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Reformed tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He<br />
was the leader of the Protestant faction in the Baden Disputation of 1526, <strong>and</strong> he was one of the founders of<br />
Protestant theology, along with Erasmus, Zwingli, Luther <strong>and</strong> Martin Bucer.<br />
(http://cw.routledge.com/ref/protestantism/calvin.pdf)<br />
The address provoked a strong reaction from the faculty, who denounced it as heretical. Cop was<br />
denounced to the parliament of Paris, who sent their officers to apprehend him. A timely notice from a<br />
friend enabled him to escape to Basle, his native town.<br />
The storm now fell upon <strong>Calvin</strong>, whose share in the sermon seems to have got wind. Jean Morin, the<br />
lieutenant of police, repaired to his lodgings for the purpose of seizing him; but <strong>Calvin</strong> had also<br />
received a private warning, <strong>and</strong> saved himself by flight. The manner of his escape is differently<br />
narrated. According to some writers, he let himself down from his window by means of his sheets<br />
into the Rue des Bernardins, he sought the house of a vine-dresser, whom he knew; <strong>and</strong>, putting on<br />
the man's frock left the city.<br />
That was followed in 1534 by another attack on the Catholic Church known as the “Affair of the<br />
Placards,” . The Affair of the Placards (French: Affaire des Placards) was an incident in which<br />
anti-Catholic posters appeared in public places in Paris <strong>and</strong> in four major provincial cities: Blois,<br />
Rouen, Tours <strong>and</strong> Orléans, overnight during 17 October 1534. Upon which the Governement took<br />
serious action. This time <strong>Calvin</strong> <strong>and</strong> Nicholas Cop had to flee from the country.<br />
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