Glimpses #170: A Love That Was Meant To Be: The Odd Romance of John and Idelette Calvin.
Format: 4-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: Someone once said that all Frenchmen are lovers. John Calvin seemed to be working hard to disprove that notion. As a 31 year-old bachelor, Calvin announced he was not one of "those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure."
John Calvin, French scholar and theologian and reluctant leader of the Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland. It took a search committee to find him a wife. (17th century Dutch print)
Along with Martin Luther, Calvin stands as a giant in the Protestant Reformation. But where Luther wrote often about his passionate relationship with wife Katie, Calvin kept rather quiet about his love life. But then, this quiet, bookish scholar didn't talk much about any personal matters.
Educated in France and famous for his work in Geneva, Calvin found his wife in German-speaking Strasbourg. It would be more correct to say, "a wife was found for him." The story would make a great premise for a modern TV reality show.
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