Adrianus Saravia

Adrianus Saravia (also: Hadrian Zaravia; * around 1531/32 in Hesdin ; † January 15, 1613 in Canterbury ) was a Flemish Reformed theologian.

Life

Saravia was born in the Spanish Netherlands . His father Christopher († 1572) was of Spanish origin and his mother Elizabeth Boulanger († 1578) came from the Flanders of St. Omer. His first educational path is unknown. As a young man he entered the Franciscan order and, according to his own statements, studied in Paris. In 1557 he resigned from the Franciscan order and joined Calvinism . To this end, he went to Geneva to familiarize himself with the ideas. In 1559 he came to England and moved to Ghent in the summer of 1559.

Here he married Catherine d'Allez on June 22, 1561 († February 1, 1605 in Canterbury) and at about the same time he also participated in the formulation of the Dutch Creed (Confessio Belgica). Together with her he traveled to London, where he worked as a pastor at the French Reformed Church. In 1562 he returned to the Netherlands, became a Reformed pastor at the Walloon Church in Antwerp and in 1563 established the Walloon congregation in Brussels. The restrictions placed on the Protestants in Flanders at the time forced him to return to England. In September 1563 he became the first director at Elizabeth College , Guernsey , which had been founded that same year.

He also worked as a preacher at the local St. Peter's Church . In 1568 he joined the army of Prince William of Orange as a chaplain , moved to Southampton in 1569, where he took over the rectorate of the King Edward VI School there in 1572 and supported the national Dutch movement from here. After the Union of Utrecht was established in 1579 , he moved to Ghent. When Alessandro Farnese conquered Ghent, however, he moved to Leiden as a pastor, from where he asked the British royal family for military support for the Union of Utrecht. In 1584 he was appointed professor of theology in Leiden and was rector of the alma mater from 1585 to 1587 . He also supported Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester , who had provided English troops in support of the Dutch union efforts and attended the National Synod of the Reformed Church in The Hague in 1586.

In 1587 he was involved in a plot and had to flee Leiden to London. He was subsequently removed from his academic post and sentenced to death in absentia by a court. In 1588 he found a job as a pastor in Tatenhill. On July 9, 1590, he received a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford. From 1593 to 1595 he built the school in Barton under Needwood. On November 25, 1595 he was vicar in Lewisham and on December 6, 1595 canon of Canterbury Cathedral . Finally, in 1601, he took a position as dean of Westminster Abbey . In 1604 he had given up the parish in Lewisham.

His work Defensio tractarionis de diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus , published in 1594, was placed on the index of forbidden books by the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1618, five years after his death .

After his first wife died, he married Margaret Wijts in London in 1606, who after his death set him an epitaph in Canterbury.

Works (selection)

Een hertgrondighe loved the noble lanckmoedighen high-born Prince van Oraengien 1568
De diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus. London 1590, English 1591
De imperandi authoritate et christiana obedienta. 1593
Defensio tractarionis de diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus. London, Christopher Barker, 1594
De Sacra Eucharistia. 1605, English 1855 (treatise on the Wittenberg Agreement)
Examen tractatus de episcoporum triplici genere. 1610

literature

Willem Nijenhuis: Saravia (Sarravia, Ser (r) avia), Adrianus (Hadrianus) (a, de, van) . In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. Verlag JH Kok, Kampen, ISBN 90-242-2332-6 , 1983, vol. 2, p. 382 (Dutch)
Willem Nijenhuis: Adrianus Saravia (c. 1532-1613) . Verlag EJ Brill, Leiden, 1980, ISBN 90-04-06194-0 , ( online sample , English)
Udo Tavares: SARAVIA, Hadrianus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1354-1357. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Epitaph Saravia in Canterbury

Saravia in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden

Individual evidence

↑ according to Anglican writing 1612
^ Saravia, Adrien. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 806 (French, digitized ).

personal data
SURNAME	Saravia, Adrianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Flemish Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1531-1532
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hesdin
DATE OF DEATH	January 15, 1613
Place of death	Canterbury

[1] rding to Anglican writing 1612

[2] Saravia, Adrien. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 806 (French, digitized ).