Geneva: an explanatory plaque at the monument Michel Servet
The City of Geneva has just completed the expiatory monument in memory of Michael Servetus who, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of his conviction, was erected in 1903 on the supposed site of his pyre by an explanatory plaque.
Recalling the words of Sebastian Castellon, a contemporary of John Calvin, it not only provides information but also corrects the assertion of the stele by that it was "a mistake of his time." But the mistake was the first of many that John Calvin through his relationship denounced Servetus to the Catholic Inquisition, he lived in Vienna (in France) and then arrested him when he ventured to Geneva (c is his servant, who served then accuser), led indeed an inquisitorial trial, obviously it hard to give rise to suspicion of a settling of accounts staff, justified thereafter by a loud and clear libel and made a theology of condemnation of heresy with the secular call. The public announcement (to applaud or to condemn) that Protestants, on the subject, as did the Catholics!
Here's what the plaque says that we can only point to the opportunity.
Michael Servetus (1509 or 1511-1553), physician and scientist English, born in Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca province, Aragón. He recognizes the discovery of blood oxygenation. He published several theological works, denying the Trinity and infant baptism, which were deemed blasphemous by Catholics and Protestants of his time.
He sought to recognize his ideas by Jean Calvin, without success. Sentenced to death by the authorities of the City of Geneva for heresy, he was burned October 26, 1553.
Sébastien Castellon, Regent College Bank, in exile in Basel, rose in defense against post-mortem treatment suffered for heresy and wrote: " kill a man, not defend a doctrine, is to kill a man. Geneva Servetus killed when they did not defend a doctrine, they killed a man . "
This monument, commissioned on the initiative of Emile Doumergue, French historian, dean of the Faculty of Theology Montauban is engraved on both sides.
Source: http://actua.unitariennes.over-blog.com/article-geneve-une-plaque-explicative-a-la-stele-michel-servet-52500932.html
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