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Bernardino Ochino

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bernardino Ochino , 1487-1564, Italian religious reformer. Ochino was a Capuchin friar, a popular preacher, and vicar general of the Capuchins in 1538 and 1541. Influenced by Juan de Valdés and his circle in Naples, Ochino turned to belief in justification by faith alone, gave up his belief in monastic vows, and adopted an independent Protestantism. In 1542 he fled from the Roman Inquisition to Geneva, where he was well received by Calvin. After two years there he went to England, where he was highly respected until the accession of Mary I, when he returned to Switzerland and became... Read more
Ochino, Bernardino
Ochino, Bernardino (1487–1564), Protestant Reformer. He was an Observantine Franciscan and then a Capuchin , in each case holding high office... Read more
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...developed with the Reformation, notably through Michael Servetus (1511–53), the physician burned in Geneva, Bernardino Ochino (1487–1564), the friar turned Lutheran whom Cranmer invited to England in 1547, and Lelio and Fausto Sozzini... Read more

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