BOLSEC, JÉRÔME-HERMÈS. - Carmelite theologian, b. in Paris, d. 4 Nov. 1585. He abandoned the Order and fled to Ferrara, where for some time he was chaplain to Duchess Renata. In 1550 he adhered to Calvin, with whom he formed a friendship in Geneva, and practised medicine. When this friendship was later broken because he had declared himself against the doctrine of predestination, he was imprisoned by Calvin’s order, then banished from Geneva as an infamous impostor and apostate. To escape his persecutions, he took refuge in France, practising as a physician, and in the city of Autun he abjured his errors, taking a stand against the reformers.
In 1562 he had published: Le miroir, envoyé de Vérité au Roi concerning the reform of the Church, which is a brief pamphlet; Histoire de la vie, moeurs, actes, doctrine, constance et mort de Jean Calvin (Lyons 1577), dedicated to the Archbishop of Lyons; Histoire de la vie, moeurs, doctrine et deportement de Th. de Bèze (Paris 1582).
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