the university. In a letter to Crato near the end of August 1563, he complained about an intolerable workload. Previously, he had had to prepare and deliver four lectures per week, which he found difficult to do; now he not only had an additional lecture but also at three o’clock every Sunday afternoon had to preach on the Heidelberg Catechism.108 Was the catechism preaching transferred to Ursinus because Olevianus was too busy working on the new church order? Or could it have been because Ursinus