Colloquy of Poissy, a conference held in Events The Edict of Orleans suspends the persecution of the Huguenots. Mary, Queen of Scots is denied passage through England after returning from France. She arrives at Leith, Scotland on August 19. The first Calvinists settle in England after fleeing Flanders. Madrid is declared the capital of Spain by Philip... 1561 with the object of effecting a reconciliation between the The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. Members generally prefer the term Catholic Church, but this term has multiple meanings (see Catholicism); the term Roman Catholic Church is used in this article to avoid... Catholics and Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. It generally refers to those that separated from the Catholic Church in the Reformation, their offshoots, and those that share similar doctrines or ideologies. It is commonly considered one of the three major branches of Christianity, along with Catholicism and Eastern... Protestants of The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... France.

It was initiated by Catherine de Medici ( April 13, 1519 – January 5, 1589), born in Italy as Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici, and later queen of France under the French name Catherine de Médicis, was the wife of King Henry II of France, of the Valois branch of the... Catherine de' Medici, regent during the minority of her son Charles IX (June 27, 1550 - May 30, 1574) was born Charles-Maximilien, the son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de Medici. Born in the royal chateau at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he was crowned King of France in 1561 in the cathedral at Reims, but ruled under... Charles IX. In the policy of which it was the outcome she enjoyed the support of the Chancellor Michel lHospital Michel de lHôpital (or lHospital) (c. 1505 - March 13, 1573), French statesman, was born near Aigueperse in Auvergne (now Puy-de-Dôme). His father, who was physician to the constable Charles of Bourbon, sent him to study at Toulouse. At the... Michel de l'Hôpital and the lieutenant-general of the kingdom, Anthony of Navarre; while on the other hand the heads of the Catholic party had attempted to frustrate any form of negotiation. Theodore Beza (Theodore de Beze or de Besze) (June 24, 1519 - October 13, 1605) was a French theologian living most of his life in Switzerland and scholar and participant in the Protestant Reformation. Theodore Beza Early Life He was born at Vezelay (8 miles west-south-west of Avallon), in... Theodore Beza from Coat of arms of the Canton of Geneva Coat of arms of the City of Geneva Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra, Romansh Genevra, Spanish: Ginebra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac L... Geneva and Pietro Martire Vermigli, known as Peter Martyr ( 1500- 1562), was a theologian of the Reformation period. He was born at Florence on May 8 1500, the son of Stefano Vermigli, a follower of Savonarola, by his first wife, Maria Fumantina. He owed his Christian names to a vow which his... Peter Martyr Vermigli from Zürich IPA (in English often Zurich, which is also the standard French form of the name) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 364,558 in 2002; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. The city is Switzerlands... Zürich appeared at the colloquy; the German theologians to whom invitations had been despatched only arrived in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital city of France, as well as the capital of the Île-de-France région, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs. The city of Paris proper is also a dé... Paris after the discussion was broken off.

The conference was opened on September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). There are 113 days remaining. Events 1000 - Battle of Swold 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Habsburg lands between the Habsburg Dukes Albert III and Leopold III 1513 - In the Battle of Flodden Field James IV... September 9 in the refectory of the convent of Poissy, the king himself being present. The spokesman of the The Reformed churches are a group of Protestant denominations historically related by a similar Zwinglian or Calvinist system of doctrine but organizationally independent. Each of the nations in which the Reformed movement was established had originally its own church government. Several of these local churches have expanded to worldwide denominations... Reformed Church was Beza, who, in the first session, gave a lengthy exposition of its tenets, but excited such repugnance by his pronouncements on the Communion that he was interrupted by Cardinal Tournon. In the second session ( September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). There are 106 days remaining. Events 1597 - Yi Sun-sin led 12 ships of the Korean fleet against an invasion by 133 Japanese ships. The Koreans sank 31 enemy ships and forced a Japanese retreat. 1701 - Prince... September 16) he was answered by the cardinal of Lorraine, who discharged his task with skill and moderation.

On the motion, however, of Ippolito d'Este, the papal legate, exception was taken to the further conduct of the negotiations in full conclave; and a committee of twenty-four representatives, twelve from each party, was appointedostensibly to facilitate a satisfactory decision. On the Catholic side, as was speedily demonstrated, there existed no sort of tendency to conciliation. On the contrary, the cardinal of Lorraine, by his question whether the In an unadorned church, the 17th century congregation stands to hear the sermon. Painting by Emmanuel de Witte Calvinism is a Protestant Christian doctrine named after John Calvin. The term Calvinism has two common uses: As regards the doctrine of grace, Calvinism refers to the soteriological system set out by... Calvinists were prepared to sign the The Augsburg Confession, in Latin Confessio Augustana, is the central document of the Lutheran reformation, which was a reaction against the Roman Catholic Church. It was presented at the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V had called upon the Princes and Free Territories of Lutheran... Confession of Augsburg, attempted to sow dissension between them and the The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. See Protestantism for further discussion. History of Lutheranism Early history Lutheranism as a movement traces its origin to the work of Martin Luther, a German religious scholar who sought to reform the practices of the... Lutheran Protestants of Germany, on whose continued support they calculated.

The Catholic delegates, moreover, discovered a powerful auxiliary when Lainez, the general of the Jesuit order, which had been admitted into France a short time previously, entered the debate; and the acrimony with which he opposed the Protestants was of material service in clarifying the situation. Still a further reduction was made in the number of members, and a small residuum consisting of five Catholics and five Protestants undertook the task of devising a formula on which the two churches might unite with regard to the question of the The Eucharist is either the Christian sacrament of consecrated bread and wine or the ritual surrounding it. The term Eucharist is used mainly in Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and Lutheran traditions, and is based upon the Greek word ευχαριστω, eucharisto, meaning to... Communion. Their difficult labours even seemed on the point of success when the assemblage of prelates refused assent, and the conference broke up on October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). There are 83 days remaining. Events 1000 - Leif Ericson discovers Vinland, becoming the first known European to set foot in North America. 1238 - James I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded the Kingdom of Valencia. 1446 - The... October 9--a result which barred the way to a pacific understanding with the In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. Origin of the name Originally a term of derision, the origin remains uncertain. It may have derived from the personal name of Besançon Hugues, the leader of... Huguenots.

See H Küpffel, Le Colloque de Poissy (Paris, 1868); E Lacheinmann in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopädie f. protest. Theologie (3rd ed., 1904), XV. 497.

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