From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

The monks looked with but small favor on
these doings. The doors open to the young
evangelist were shut against themselves. If they
plotted to stop the work by casting the workman
into prison, in a town under Margaret's jurisdiction
this was not so easy. The design failed, if it was
ever entertained, and the evangelist went on
sowing the seed from which in days to come a
plentiful harvest was to spring. The Churches
whose foundations are now being laid by the
instrumentality of Calvin will yield in future years
not only confessors of the truth, but martyrs for the
stake.
In the midst of these labors Calvin received a
letter from Noyon, his native town, saying that his
father was dead.[5] These tidings stopped his work,
but it is possible that they saved him from prison.
He had planted, but another must water; and so
turning his face towards his birth-place, he quits
Bourges not again to return to it. But the work he
had accomplished in it did not perish. A venerable
doctor, Michel Simon, came forward on Calvin's
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