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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY -<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
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Huguenots are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition. The<br />
term was used frequently to describe members of the Reformed Church of France from the early<br />
1500s until around 1800.<br />
Hugueno Cross<br />
"Huguenot" is: "a combination of a Dutch <strong>and</strong> a German word. In the Dutch-speaking North of France, Bible<br />
students who gathered in each other's houses to study secretly were called Huis Genooten ('housemates')<br />
while on the Swiss <strong>and</strong> German borders they were termed Eid Genossen, or 'oath fellows,' that is, persons<br />
bound to each other by an oath. Gallicised into 'Huguenot', often used deprecatingly, the word became, during<br />
two <strong>and</strong> a half centuries of terror <strong>and</strong> triumph, a badge of enduring honour <strong>and</strong> courage."<br />