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Censorship of the press and books or to speak disrespectfully of Calvin or clergy was a crime. First with a reprimand then fine. For continuous violations prison or banished. Fornication was exile or drowning. Adultery, blasphemy or idolatry with death. Once a child was beheaded for striking the parents. [pg474]
From 1558-59 there were 414 prosecutions on moral offenses in 22 years there were seventy-six banishments, fifty-eight executions out of a population of about twenty thousand. Torture was often used to get confessions as everywhere in sixteenth century. [474]
In one year 14 people found guilty of being witches went to the stake. The entire household was to attend sermons on Sunday unless attending children or cattle. If there was preaching on weekdays all who could must come, Calvin preached 3 or 4 times a week. No one was excused from services for having another private belief. [473]
An elder visited each house in an assigned quarter every year asking questions on every phase of their lives. Things prohibited were profanity, card playing, drunkenness, frequenting taverns, dancing, irreligious songs, excessive entertainment, extravagance in living, immodest dress, wrong color and amount of clothing. A woman could be jailed having her hair to an immoral height, an obstinate father served 4 days in jail for naming his son Claude instead of Abraham, etc… [474]
Geneva was a theocracy, State and religion was one under Calvin. Pg464 outside church no salvation according to Calvin. Source for all above. “The Story of Civilization, The Reformation”, by Will Durant.
From 1558-59 there were 414 prosecutions on moral offenses in 22 years there were seventy-six banishments, fifty-eight executions out of a population of about twenty thousand. Torture was often used to get confessions as everywhere in sixteenth century. [474]
In one year 14 people found guilty of being witches went to the stake. The entire household was to attend sermons on Sunday unless attending children or cattle. If there was preaching on weekdays all who could must come, Calvin preached 3 or 4 times a week. No one was excused from services for having another private belief. [473]
An elder visited each house in an assigned quarter every year asking questions on every phase of their lives. Things prohibited were profanity, card playing, drunkenness, frequenting taverns, dancing, irreligious songs, excessive entertainment, extravagance in living, immodest dress, wrong color and amount of clothing. A woman could be jailed having her hair to an immoral height, an obstinate father served 4 days in jail for naming his son Claude instead of Abraham, etc… [474]
Geneva was a theocracy, State and religion was one under Calvin. Pg464 outside church no salvation according to Calvin. Source for all above. “The Story of Civilization, The Reformation”, by Will Durant.
