SARAVIA, ADRIANO. - Calvinist theologian, b. in 1538 at Esda in Artois, d. at Oxford in 1613. In 1559, because of religious persecutions, he took refuge in England, where he carried out various duties, alternating them, however, with other assignments at Antwerp, Ghent, etc.

In 1582 he was appointed minister of the Walloon Church at Leiden and soon professor of theology at that University. Expelled in 1587, he returned to England and entered the service of the Anglican Church.

Because of his episcopal conception of the Church he occupies a place apart among Calvinist theologians. On this subject he polemicized with Theodore Beza (1594), spoke out against the theory of regicide (1593); he took up the defense of the Heidelberg Catechism (1583) and seems to have collaborated on the Dutch version of the Confession of Faith of Guy de Brès.

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BIBL.: C. Sepp, Het godeleerd onderwijs in Nederland, I, Leiden 1873; A. van Schelven, S., in Nieuw Nederl. Biogr. Woordenb., IX, ibid. 1933, pp. 934-39.

Ponciano Polman

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Saravia, Adriano

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