After breakfast we will travel by coach to Geneva. We will visit the Cathedral of St. Pierre, where Calvin was senior pastor. We will have a tour of the city and then visit the Reformation museum. If there is time we will also visit the remarkable new Reformed Synagogue built in the form of a Shofar. We will return for early evening to Cret-Berard.
John Calvin, 1509 – 1564 was the thinker and political organizer of the French speaking side of the Swiss Reformation centred in Geneva. Born in France he had to flee and came to Geneva in 1536 before being forced to leave in 1538. In 1541 he was asked to return and dominated the city till his death. His most famous work is his 'Institutes of Christian Religion' which went through several editions from 1536 increasing in size until the final edition of 1559. This is essentially the first systematic presentation of Christian theology based on Scripture. Calvin is the acknowledged father of the Reformed Protestant Christian Church.
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