John Calvin-Life,Legacy and Theology

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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY - PROF. M. M. NINAN under the altar of the cathedral. This is one of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in France and some parts of it date back to the 12th century. Noyon is an important historic site in France # In this city, the last Merovingian king, Chilpéric II, was buried in 721, # Charlemagne was crowned king of Neustria in 768 and # Hugues Capet was crowned king of France in 987. # It was here that Charlemagne had his capital before moving to Aachen in Germany. According to long-standing tradition, Mary, Martha, Lazarus and some companions, who were expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles. Provençal tradition names Lazarus as the first bishop of Marseille. Until the French Revolution, Noyon was an important cultural and intellectual centre, but it was also, a hot-bed of revolt against the Roman Catholic authority, who wielded enormous power and was very corrupt. The people of Noyon passionately fought for their rights and consequently it became one of the first independent communes in France in 1108, seizing from the ecclesiastical authorities its own town charter of civil rights.
JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY - PROF. M. M. NINAN The same day, in Saint-Godeberthe church, the child was baptized. The edifice where Calvin was baptized was destroyed at the time of the revolution. Calvin's father, Gérard Cauvin, had a prosperous career as the cathedral notary and registrar to the ecclesiastical court. His father, a lawyer, and a lay administrator was in the service of the local bishop, Bishop Charles d'Hangest. He was also the secretary to the bishop. On the father's side, Calvin's ancestors were seafaring men. His grandfather settled at Pont l'Evêque near Paris, and had two sons who became locksmiths at Pont l'Evlque, in a village nearby. The third was Gerard, Calvin's father who was a cooper; one who makes utensils and barrels with wood. His mother, Jeanne le Franc, was the daughter of an innkeeper from Cambrai. She died of an unknown cause in Calvin's childhood, after having borne four more children. She passed away when Calvin was six. His father remarried and he was sent to live with the Montmar family. Gerard had four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Charles, was an ecclesiastic, and chaplain of St. Mary's church at Noyon. But when he died he refused to take the last sacraments. Having suspicious of his fath in the Catholic religion he was refused burial within the Catholic cemetery and was burried in the public gibbet in the night., The second son was John Calvin.. The third son, Anthony, was a chaplain of Tourneville, in the village of Traversy. Eventually he embraced the Reformed tenets, and followed Calvin to Geneva. The fourth son died in childhood. Of the two daughters, one, Maria accompanied Calvin to Geneva; the other appears to have continued in the Roman Catholic faith. Both his father and mother remained faithful to the Catholic faith till they died. In 1914, Noyon was occupied by Germany. During the occupation, a memorial plaque was placed on the house where he was born stating that it was the historic birthplace of Calvin. However, in 1918, the last year of World War I, it was completely destroyed. After the war, the Society of the History of French Protestantism bought the ruined house and restored the first floor of the building. The top floor was eventually added and the entire house was converted to a museum in 1930. During World War II, 3
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