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Comander, aided by his younger colleague, Blasius, and afterwards by
Gallicius, continued to maintain the Reformed faith against Papists,
Anabaptists, and also against foreign pensioners who had their
headquarters at Coire, and who punished him for his opposition by a
reduction of his scanty salary of one hundred and twenty guilders. He was
at times tempted to resign, but Bullinger urged him to hold on. f224 He
stood at the head of the Reformed synod till his death in 1557.
He was succeeded by Fabricius, who died of the pestilence in 1566.
Philip Gallicius (SALUZ) developed a more extensive activity. He is the
Reformer of the Engadin, but labored also as pastor and evangelist in
Domleschg, Langwies, and Coire. He was born on the eastern frontier of
Graubünden in 1504, and began to preach already in 1520. He had an
irresistible eloquence and power of persuasion. When he spoke in
Romansh, the people flocked from every direction to hear him. He was the
chief speaker at two disputations in Süs, a town of the Lower Engadin,
against the Papists (1537), and against the Anabaptists (1544). f225 He also
introduced the Reformation in Zuz in the Lower Engadin, 1554, with the
aid of JOHN TRAVERS, a distinguished patriot, statesman, soldier, and laypreacher,
who was called “the steelclad Knight in the service of the Lord.”
Gallicius suffered much persecution and poverty, but remained gentle,
patient, and faithful to the end. When preaching in the Domleschg he had
not even bread to feed his large family, and lived for weeks on vegetables
and salt. And yet he educated a son for the ministry at Basel, and dissuaded
him from accepting a lucrative offer in another calling. He also did as much
as he could for the Italian refugees. He died of the pestilence with his wife
and three sons at Coire, 1566.
He translated the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Ten
Commandments, and several chapters of the Bible, into the Romansh
language, and thus laid the foundation of the Romansh literature. He also
wrote a catechism and a Latin grammar, which were printed at Coire. He
prepared the Confession of Raetia, in 1552, which was afterwards
superseded by the Confession of Bullinger in 1566.
Ulrich Campell (b. c. 1510, d. 1582) was pastor at Coire and at Süs, and,
next to Gallicius, the chief reformer of the Engadin. He is also the first
historian of Raetia and one of the founders of the religious literature in
Romanic Raetia. His history is written in good Latin, and based upon