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The Protestant Reformation: Major Documents is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book consists of a series of statements from men and women dating between 1501 and 1559. These statements illustrate the ideas, beliefs, and sometimes the fates, of the people who had come to share a profound discontent with the church as it then existed and a positive determination to change it.

5. Calvin: Letter to the Five Prisoners of Lyons Calvin’s remarkable talent for organization extended far beyond the confines of Geneva and the Swiss cantons. His vast correspondence reveals that he was in close touch with developments in all parts of Europe and maintained personal contact with Reformed ministers and missionaries also in Catholic territories. The letter which follows is a moving testimony to Calvin’s concern for five young French martyrs. In April, 1552, five young French Protestants