Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

whether Sigismund Augustus was ever brought to
test the two creeds by the great question which of
the twain was able to sustain the weight of his
soul's salvation; and so, with convictions feeble
and ill-defined, his purpose touching the reform of
the Church never ripened into act.
The second name is that of no vacillating man -
- we have met it before -- it is that of John Alasco.
John Alasco, born in the last year save one of the
fifteenth century [1] was sprung of one of the most
illustrious families in Poland. Destined for the
Church, he received the best education which the
schools of his native land could bestow, and he
afterwards visited Germany, France, Italy, and
Belgium in order to enlarge and perfect his studies.
At the University of Louvain, renowned for the
purity of its orthodoxy, and whither he resorted,
probably at the recommendation of his uncle, who
was Primate of Poland, he contracted a close
friendship with Albert Hardenberg.[2] After a short
stay at. Louvain, finding the air murky with
scholasticism, he turned his steps in the direction of
Switzerland, and arriving at Zurich, he made the
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