Castellio, Sebastian

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Castellio, Sebastian [also: Castalion, Châtillon (1515—1563) A Swiss school rector whom John Calvin frowned upon because of his unauthorized Latin and French translations of the Bible, Castellio was horrified when Calvin had Michael Servetus murdered because of theological differences. So he wrote Concerning Heretics, in which (using a pseudonym, Martinus Bellius) he condemned Calvin as the murderer of Servetus. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) has described in The Right to Heresy: Castellio Against Calvin (1951) how Calvin plotted the heretic Castellio’s death, which was thwarted by Castellio’s illness and death from “an overtaxed heart.” {CE; JMRH; TSV}