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AND THEIR REFUTATION. 39
Geneva, but he soon perceived that the Capuchin had no great
opinion of him, and leaned more to the doctrines of Luther, and
he, therefore, began to treat him with coolness ; so, having no
great affection for the doctrines of either one or the other, he
determined to establish his fame by founding a new sect. He
then took up the opinions of Arius, and published some tracts in
Italian, in which he confounded the personality and properties of
the Three Divine Persons, so Calvin procured a sentence of
banishment to be passed on him by the Senate of Geneva. He
then went to Basil, but as he was not safe even there, he went to
Strasbourg, to Bucer, who protected heretics of every shade, and
he received him kindly, appointed him Professor of Theology,
and took him, along with himself and Peter Martyr, to England
afterwards. They were both banished from that kingdom, by
Queen Mary, on her accession, together with thirty thousand
others, so he went first to Germany and then to Poland. Even
there he had no rest, for all heretics were banished from that
and so, broken down by old
country by the King, Sigismund ;
age, and abandoned by every one, he concealed himself in the
house of a friend, and died of the plague, in 1564, leaving two
sons and a daughter, their mother having died before. Cardinal
Gotti, Moreri, and others, say that he died an apostate and
impenitent ; but Zachary Boverius, in the Annals of the Capu
chins, proves on the authority of other writers, and especially of
the Dominican, Paul Grisaldus, and of Theodore Beza himself,
that he abjured all his errors, and received the Sacraments
before his death. Menochius and James Simidei follow the
opinion of Boverius, I do not give an opinion either on one side
or the other, but, with Spondanus and Graveson, leave the matter
between them (15).
(15) Gotti, cit. sec. 2, n. 8; Varillas, p. 112, & seq. ; Nat. Alex. t. 19, a. 14,
sec. 3; Van Kanst, sec. 16, p. 328; Bern. t. 4, sec. 16, c. 5; Berti, Brev. Hist.
Eccl. sec. 6, c. 3; Bover. in Ann. Capuccin. 1543; Menoch. Cent. p. 2, c. 89;
Paulus Grisald. Decis. Fid. Cath. in Ind. error. & Haerat. Simid. Comp. Stor,
degli Eresiarchi, sec. 16; Graveson, t. 4, Hist. Eccl. coll. 3.