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JARGEN SADOLIN (c. 1499-1559)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 994 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SADOLIN (c. 1499-1559)  Danish reformer, the son of Jens Christensen, a See also:curate and subsequently a See also:canon of See also:Viborg See also:cathedral, and consequently, in all See also:probability, See also:born (c . 1499) out of wedlock, as his See also:Catholic opponents frequently took care to remind him . He himself never used the name Sadolinus, which seems to have been invented subsequently by his son Hans, and points to the fact that the See also:family were originally See also:saddle-makers . We first hear of him on the 1st of See also:December 1525, when See also:Frederick I. permitted him to See also:settle at Viborg to See also:teach See also:young persons of the poorer classes " whatever might be profitable." On this occasion he is described as " magister " and no doubt got his degree abroad, where he seems to have been won for the See also:Reformation . He sided with Hans See also:Tausen when the latter first began to preach the See also:gospel at Viborg, and Tausen, though himself only in See also:priest's orders, shortly before he See also:left the See also:place, ordained See also:Sadolin (1529) . Amongst " the See also:free priests " who attended the herredag of See also:Copenhagen in 1530 Sadolin occupied a prominent place . Frederick subsequently transferred him to Funen, where he acted, according to his own expression, as " adjutor in verbo " to Knud Gyldenstjerne, See also:bishop of See also:Odense . At the diocesan See also:council held on the 27th of May 1532, during the See also:absence of the bishop, he presented to the assembled priests a See also:translation of See also:Luther's See also:catechism, with Luther's name omitted, preceded by an See also:earnest plea in favour of a better See also:system of See also:education and a more See also:practical application of the See also:Christian See also:life, which occupies a conspicuous place in the literature of the Danish Reformation . In the following See also:year Sadolin published the first Danish translation of the See also:Confession of See also:Augsburg . He disappears during the troublous times of " C'-revens Fejde " (1533-1536), though we get a glimpse of him at the end of 1536 as one of the preachers at Vor Frue See also:Kirke, the See also:principal See also:church of Copenhagen . On the 2nd of See also:September 1537 he was consecrated by the See also:German reformer, Johann See also:Bugenhagen, who himself only had priest's orders, See also:superintendent, or first evangelical bishop, of Funen . As bishop he was remarkable for the success with which he provided the necessary means for the support of churches, See also:schools and hospitals in his widespread See also:diocese, which had been deprived of its usual See also:sources of income by the wholesale See also:confiscation of church See also:property .

Towards the Catholics he adopted a See also:

firm, but moderate and reasonable, See also:tone, and his See also:indulgence towards the monks in St Knud's See also:cloister See also:drew down upon him a fierce attack from the Puritan clergyman of Odense, who absurdly accused him of being a crypto-Catholic . He gave the funeral oration over Christian III. in St See also:John's Church at Odense in See also:February 1559, though now very infirm and See also:blind, and died at the end of the same year . See Bricica, Dansk Biografish Lx . See also:Art . Sadolin (Copenhagen, 1887) . (R . N .

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