Protestantism in Sweden and Denmark - James Aitken Wylie

opportunities of proselytizing under the rigorous
surveillance which Prior Petri Jani was known to
exercise over those committed to his care. The
event, however, turned out quite otherwise. Shut up
in his cell, Taussan communicated with the inmates
of the convent through the bars of his window. In
these conversations he dropped the seeds of truth
into their minds, and the result was that two of the
monks, named Erasmus and Theocarius, were
converted to the truth.[14]
The horror-struck prior, foreseeing the
perversion of his whole brotherhood should he
retain this corrupter a day longer in the monastery,
again drove Taussan forth. If the prior saved his
convent by this step, he lost the city of Viborg, for
it so happened that about that time a rescript (1526)
of King Frederick was issued, commanding that no
one should offer molestation to any teacher of the
new doctrine, and Taussan thus, though expelled,
found himself protected from insult and
persecution, whether from the prior or from the
magistrates of Viborg. By a marvelous providence,
he had been suddenly transferred from the
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