Pierre Brully
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Pierre Brully (also Petrus Brullius ; * around 1518 probably in Metz ; † February 19, 1545 in Tournai ) was a Calvinist preacher who was publicly burned at the stake in the mid-16th century for illegal proselytizing .
Life
Pierre Brully, who was called Petrus Brullius in Latin, the common language among scholars in Europe at the time , was born in Lorraine around 1518. He became a Dominican , but had to leave the monastery in Metz in 1540 or 1541 because of his turn to Calvinism. In 1541 he came to Strasbourg and, as the successor of Johannes Calvin , looked after the French Christians who had found refuge in the Free Imperial City. When the Reformed in Flanders, suffering from the persecution, asked for a preacher, Brully went there in September 1544 on the recommendation of Martin Bucer in the disguise of a merchant and preached in Valenciennes , Lille , Douai and Arras , among others . In Tournai he was exposed, taken prisoner and executed on February 19, 1545 at the stake in the market square.
Remembrance day
February 19 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
literature
- Charles Paillard: Le procès de Pierre Brully, successeur de Calvin comme ministre de l'église française réformée de Strasbourg: poursuites intentées contre ses adhérents à Tournay, Valenciennes, Lille, Douay et Arras, 1544–1545, d'après les papiers inédits des archives du royaume de Belgique. Sandoz et Fischbacher, Paris / M. Nijhof, The Hague 1878 ( digitized version ).
- Rodolphe Reuss : Pierre Brully, ancien dominicain de Metz, ministre de l'Église française de Strasbourg, 1539-1545. Etude biographique. Treuttel et Würtz, Strasbourg 1878 ( digitized version ).
- Samuel Macauly Jackson (Ed.): The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Volume 2. Funk and Wagnalls, New York and London 1908, p. 284 ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brully, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brullius, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Calvinist preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1518 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Metz |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 19, 1545 |
| Place of death | Tournai |