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geschöpft. Denkmal der dritten Sekular-Jubelfeier der Bündnerischen
Reformation. Chur (Otto), 1819 (pp. 132).—Reformationsbüchlein.
Ein Denkmal des im Jahr 1819 in der Stadt Chur gefeierten
Jubelfestes. Chur (Otto), 1819. (pp. 304).
*Christian Immanuel Kind (Pfarrer und Cancellarius der evang.
rhätischen Synode, afterward Staats-Archivarius of the Grisons, d. May
23, 1884): Die Reformation in den Bisthümern Chur und Como.
Dargestellt nach den besten älteren und neueren Hülfsmitteln. Chur,
1858 (Grubenmann), pp. 310, 8°. A popular account based on a careful
study of the sources. By the same: Die Stadt Chur in ihrer ältesten
Geschichte, Chur, 1859; Philipp Gallicius, 1868; Georg Jenatsch, in
“Allg. Deutsche Biogr.,” Bd. XIII. GEORG LEONHARDI (pastor in
Brusio, Poschiavo): Philipp Gallicius, Reformator Graubündens.
Bern, 1865 (pp. 103). The same also in Romansch.—H. G.
SULZBERGER (in Sevelen, St. Gallen, d. 1888): Geschichte der
Reformation im Kanton Graubünden. Chur, 1880. pp. 90 (revised by
Kind).—FLORIAN PEER: L’église de Rhétie au XVI XVII siècles.
Genève, 1888.—HEROLD: J. Komander, in Meili’s Zeitschrift, Zurich,
1891.
The Christianization of the Grisons is traced back by tradition to St.
Lucius, a royal prince of Britain, and Emerita, his sister, in the latter part of
the second century. f216 A chapel on the mountain above Coire perpetuates
his memory. A bishop of Coire (Asimo) appears first in the year 452, as
signing by proxy the creed of Chalcedon. f217 The bishops of Coire acquired
great possessions and became temporal princes. f218 The whole country of
the Grisons stood under the jurisdiction of the bishops of Coire and Como.
The state of religion and the need of a reformation were the same as in the
other cantons of Switzerland. The first impulse to the Reformation came
from Zürich with which Coire had close connections. Zwingli sent an
address to the “three confederacies in Rhätia,” expressing a special interest
in them as a former subject of the bishop of Coire, exhorting them to
reform the Church in alliance with Zürich, and recommending to them his
friend Comander (Jan. 16, 1525). f219 Several of his pupils preached in
Fläsch, Malans, Maienfeld, Coire, and other places as early as 1524. After
his death Bullinger showed the same interest in the Grisons. The
Reformation passed through the usual difficulties first with the Church of
Rome, then with Anabaptists, Unitarians, and the followers of the mystical