LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT JOHN CALVIN & HIS SIDEKICK WILLIE!
More fun with church history
On this day in 1538, the Geneva’s Council of 200 said (more or less), “This town’s not big enough for us and you’uns. Git out before sundown!” So off rode John Calvin and his crusty sidekick Guillaume “Shotgun Willie” Farel, ministers who had rubbed Geneva’s sophisticated magistrates and citizenry the wrong way. Few know1 that the pair earned their bread for a time as bouvier itinérants (drifting cowboys).
They herded and protected Swiss cattle from papist rustlers and marauding anabaptists. Though successful in their dusty, perilous profession, Calvin and Farel soon split up—Calvin went to Strasbourg, where he found some peace and a wife, and Farel proceeded to Neuchâtel.
Fun fact: In Strasbourg, Calvin preached often at “The Church of Strangers,”2 a French refugee congregation which many believe was the model for the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
Actually, NO ONE knows this because it’s fiction.
"And that's the way it was, April 22, 1538. Goodnight... "