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Calvin in cameo

2009 sees the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. Here is a short biography of his influential life.

John Benton

John Calvin was a Frenchman, born in 1509 at Noyon, north east of Paris, into a strongly Roman Catholic family. He went to the University of Paris, where he studied for the priesthood and then as a lawyer.