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See also:GUILLAUME See also:FAREL (1489-1565) , See also:French reformer, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family near See also:Gap in See also:Dauphine in 1489 . His parents meant him for the military profession, but his See also:bent being for study he was allowed to enter the university of See also:Paris . Here he came under the See also:influence of Jacobus See also:Faber (Stapulensis), on whose recommendation he was appointed See also:professor in the See also:college of See also:Cardinal Lemoine . In 1521, on the invitation of See also:Bishop Briconnet, he repaired to See also:Meaux, and took See also:part in efforts of reform within the See also:Roman communion . The persecuting See also:measures of 1523, from which Faber found a See also:refuge at Meaux, determined See also:Farel to leave See also:France . See also:Oecolampadius welcomed him to See also:Basel, where in 1524 he put forth thirteen theses sharply antagonizing Roman See also:doctrine . These he defended with See also:great ability, but with so much See also:heat that See also:Erasmus joined in demanding his See also:expulsion from the See also:city . He thought of going to See also:Wittenberg, but his first See also:halt was at See also:Strassburg, where See also:Bucer and See also:Capito received him kindly . At the See also:call of See also:Duke See also:Ulrich of See also:Wurttemberg he went as preacher to Mortbeliard . Displaying the same qualities which had driven him from Basel, he was forced to leave See also:Montbeliard in the See also:spring of 1525 . He retraced his steps to Strassburg and Basel; and, at the end of 1526, obtained a preacher's See also:post at Aigle, then a dependency of See also:Bern . Deeming it See also:wise to suppress his name, he adopted the See also:pseudonym See also:Ursinus, with reference to his See also:protection by Bern .
Despite strenuous opposition by the monastic orders, he obtained in 1528 a See also:licence from the authorities to preach anywhere within the See also:canton of Bern
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He extended his labours to the cantons of See also:Neuchatel and See also:Vaud
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His vehement missionary addresses were met by See also:mob violence, but he persevered with undaunted zeal
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In See also:October 1530 he See also:broke into the See also: This was the See also:signal for public disputations in which Farel took the leading part on the Reformation See also:side, with the result that by See also:decree of the 27th of See also:August 1535 the See also:mass was suppressed and the reformed See also:religion established . See also:Calvin, on his way to Basel for a See also:life of study, touched at Geneva, and by the importunity of Farel was there detained to become the See also:leader of the Genevan Reformation . ' The severity of the disciplinary . measures which followed procured a reaction under which Farel and Calvin were banished the city in 1538 . Farel was called to Neuchatel in See also:July 1538, but his position there was made untenable, though he remained at his post during a visitation of the See also:plague . When (x541) Calvin was recalled to Geneva, Farel also returned; but in 1542 he went to See also:Metz to support the Reformation there . It is said that when he preached in the Dominican church of Metz, the bells were See also:rung to drown his See also:voice, but his voice outdid the bells, and on the next occasion he had three thousand hearers . His See also:work was checked by the active hostility of the duke of See also:Lorraine, and in 1544 he returned to Neuchatel .. No one was more frequently and confidentially consulted by . Calvin . When the trial of See also:Servetus was in progress (1553), Calvin was anxious for Farel's presence, but he did not arrive till See also:sentence had been passed . He accompanied Servetus to the stake, vainly urging him to a recantation at the last moment . A coolness with Calvin was created by Farel's See also:marriage, at the See also:age of sixty-nine, with a refugee widow from See also:Rouen, of unsuitable age . By her, six years later, he had one son, who died in See also:infancy . The vigour and fervency of his preaching were unabated by length of years . Calvin's See also:death, in 1564, affected him deeply . Yet in his last year he revisited Metz, preaching amid great See also:enthusiasm, with all his wonted See also:fire . The effort was too much for him; he See also:left the church exhausted, took to his See also:bed, and died at Metz on the 13th of See also:September 1565 . Farel wrote much, but usually in haste, and for an immediate purpose . He takes no See also:rank as a scientific theologian, being a See also:man of activity rather than of See also:speculation or of much insight . His Sommaire was re-edited from the edition of 1534 by J . G . Baum in 1867 . Others of his See also:works (all in French) were his See also:treatise on See also:purgatory (1534), on the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer (1543), on the Supper (1555) . He " was remarkable for boldness and See also:energy both in preaching and prayer " (M . See also:Young, Life of See also:Paleario) . As an orator, he was denunciatory rather than suasive; thus while on the one See also:hand he powerfully impressed, on the other hand he stimulated opposition . A See also:monument to him was unveiled at Neuchatel on the 4th of May 1876 . Lives of Farel are numerous; it may suffice to mention C . See also:Ancillon, See also:Vie de G . Farel (1691); the See also:article in See also:Bayle.; M . Kirchhofcr, Das Leben W . Farels (1831–1833) ; Ch . See also:Schmidt, Etudes sur Farel (1834) ; F . Bevan, W . Farel (1893) ; J . J . See also:Herzog, in Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopadie (1898) . (A . |
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