Theodore Beza
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Theodore Beza was a French Calvinist Protestant theologian, reformer and scholar who played an important role in the Protestant Reformation. He was a disciple of John Calvin and lived most of his life
Portrait of Beza at age 58, 1577
Theodore Beza's birthplace in Vézelay
Beza at age 24, 16th-century portrait
Portrait of Theodore Beza, by English School, 17th century
Vézelay
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Vézelay is a commune in the department of Yonne in the north-central French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is a defensible hill town famous for Vézelay Abbey. The town and its 11th-century Roma
Theodore Beza
…lived most of his life in Geneva. Beza succeeded Calvin as the spiritual leader of the Republic of Geneva. Theodore Beza was born on 24 June 1519 in Vézelay, in the province of Burgundy, France. His father, Pierre de Bèze, bailiff of Vézelay, descended from a Burgundian noble family; his mother, Marie…
Vézelay Abbey
Vézelay Abbey
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the second crusade in Vézelay in 1146.
General view of the town