Francke, Christian (1549-ca. 1595)

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Francke, Christian (1549-ca. 1595)

A sixteenth-century visionary who frequently changed his religion, which gained him the nickname "Weathercock." He believed the religion of Japan to be the best because he had read that its ministers were ecstatic. He published Colloquium Jesuiticum in 1579.

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