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Calvin had four brothers and two sisters. f386 Two of his brothers died
young, the other two received a clerical education, and were early provided
with benefices through the influence of the father.
Charles, his elder brother, was made chaplain of the cathedral in 1518, and
curé of Roupy, but became a heretic or infidel, was excommunicated in
1531, and died Oct. 1, 1537, having refused the sacrament on his deathbed.
He was buried by night between the four pillars of a gibbet. f387
His younger brother, Antoine, was chaplain at Tournerolle, near Traversy,
but embraced the evangelical faith, and, with his sister, Marie, followed the
Reformer to Geneva in 1536. Antoine kept there a bookstore, received the
citizenship gratuitously, on account of the merits of his brother (1546), was
elected a member of the Council of Two Hundred (1558), and of the
Council of the Sixty (1570), also one of the directors of the hospital, and
died in 1573. He was married three times, and divorced from his second
wife, the daughter of a refugee, on account of her proved adultery (1557).
Calvin had innocently to suffer for this scandal, but made him and his five
children chief heirs of his little property. f388
The other sister of Calvin was married at Noyon, and seems to have
remained in the Roman Catholic Church.
A relative and townsman of Calvin, Pierre Robert, called Olivetan,
embraced Protestantism some years before him, and studied Greek and
Hebrew with Bucer at Strassburg in 1528. f389 He joined Farel in Neuchatel,
and published there his French translation of the Bible in 1535.
More than a hundred years after Calvin’s death, another member of the
family, Eloi Cauvin, a Benedictine monk, removed from Noyon to Geneva,
and embraced the Reformed religion (June 13, 1667). f390
These and other facts show the extent of the anti-papal sentiment in the
family of Cauvin. In 1561 a large number of prominent persons of Noyon
were suspected of heresy, and in 1562 the Chapter of Noyon issued a
profession of faith against the doctrines of Calvin. f391
After the death of Calvin, Protestantism was completely crushed out in his
native town.
Calvin received his first education with the children of the noble family de
Mommor (not Montmor), to which he remained gratefully attached. He