. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Calvin had a high regard for Knox, but they weretoo much alike to work together in peace. Calvin wasnever in England, and in fact never learned to speakEnglish, but Knox spoke French like a native, havingimproved the time while in prison in France by study-ing the language. There ■were several hundred Englishrefugees in Geneva, and Calvin appointed Knox pastorof the English church. This was in 1554, the yearfollowing the death of Servetus. Knox deprecated thedeath of The Papal Delegate, but looked upon itlightly, a mere necessity of
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... Calvin had a high regard for Knox, but they weretoo much alike to work together in peace. Calvin wasnever in England, and in fact never learned to speakEnglish, but Knox spoke French like a native, havingimproved the time while in prison in France by study-ing the language. There ■were several hundred Englishrefugees in Geneva, and Calvin appointed Knox pastorof the English church. This was in 1554, the yearfollowing the death of Servetus. Knox deprecated thedeath of The Papal Delegate, but looked upon itlightly, a mere necessity of the times, and a due andjust warning to the pope and the followers of theBabylonish harlot. HEN Luther was forty-two he married Catherine the Nun, a most noble and excellent woman of about his own age who encouraged him in his very trying position and sustained i^9» him in time of peril. [l^^ jt Calvin married Idalette de Bures, the widow of an Ana- y baptist whom he converted j» fjSSSi Calvin was not a lover by nature, and explained to the 187. GREAT REFORMERS—John Knox world that his marriage was simply a harmless neces-sary defi to Rome. Happily the venture proved a betterscheme than he wist, and after some years, he wrote, I would have died without the helpmeet God sentme, my wife, who never opposed me in Knox was married when thirty-eight to the win-some Marjorie Bowes, aged seventeen, the fifth childof Mary Bowes whom he had ardently wooed in hisyouth. His boast to the mother that Providenceplanned that you should reject me in order that I mightdo better, was an indelicate slant by the right withered in the cold, keen atmosphere oftheological definition, and died in a few then fate sent a close call for the Reformer inthe daring, dashing person of Mary, Queen of mother was Mary of Guise, a French womandiscreetly married to King James of Scotland. Knoxalways bore a terrible hatred toward Mary of Guise,and all Fre
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