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Sebastian Castellio ( 1515 – 1563 ) was a French Protestant theologian who in 1554 published under a pseudonym the pamphlet Whether heretics should be persecuted ( De haereticis, an sint persequendi ) criticizing John Calvin's execution of Michael Servetus: " When Servetus fought with reasons and writings, he should have been repulsed by reasons and writings.
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* Sebastian Castellio ( also spelled Castello, 1515 – 1563 ), French theologian
Following the execution of Servetus, a close associate of Calvin, Sebastian Castellio, broke with him on the issue of the treatment of heretics.
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** Sebastian Castellio, rector of the College of Geneva ( d. 1563 )
In the various controversies into which he was drawn, Beza often showed an excess of irritation and intolerance, from which Bernardino Ochino, pastor of the Italian congregation at Zurich ( on account of a treatise which contained some objectionable points on polygamy ), and Sebastian Castellio at Basel ( on account of his Latin and French translations of the Bible ) had especially to suffer.
Bodin's theory, as based in considerations of harmony, resembles that of Sebastian Castellio.
Gomarus ascribed the positions he disliked to Calvin's adversary Sebastian Castellio and his follower, Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert.
Sebastian Castellio ( also Sébastien Châteillon, Châtaillon, Castellión, and Castello ) ( 1515 – December 29, 1563 ) was a French preacher and theologian ; and one of the first Reformed Christian proponents of religious toleration, freedom of conscience and thought.
In 1543, after the plague struck Geneva, Sebastian Castellio was the only divine in Geneva to visit the sick and console the dying ; the Geneva Consistory and Calvin himself refused to visit the sick, Calvin directing his servants to declare him " indispensable " and later writing in his own defense that " it would not do to weaken the whole Church in order to help a part of it.
Anticipating future attacks from Calvin, Castellio asked for a signed letter that outlined in detail the reasons for his departure: " That no one may form a false idea of the reasons for the departure of Sebastian Castellio, we all declare that he has voluntarily resigned his position as rector at the College, and up till now performed his duties in such a way that we regarded him worthy to become one of our preachers.
* Sebastian Castellio and the Struggle for Freedom of Conscience
* New opera featuring Sebastian Castellio
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Sebastian and 1515
** Sebastian Franck, German freethinker ( b. 1515 )
* December 29 – Sebastian Castello, French theologian ( b. 1515 )
Sebastian Munster ( 1515 ), Abraham Ortelius, and Girolamo Ruscelli.
* Virgin and Child with St. Sebastian, St. Francis, St. John the Baptist, St. Jerome, an Unidentified Female Saint, St. Anthony of Padua and Two Donors ( c. 1515 )
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* 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean artist and journalist
* 1983 – Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor
* Sebastian Osterrieder ( 1864 – 1932 ): sculptor
* 1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
* 1968 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer-songwriter ( Belle & Sebastian )
* 1989 – Sebastian Huke, German footballer
* 1613 – Christoph Bach, court musician, grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1661 )
* 1993 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.
* 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.
* 1907 – Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer ( d. 1999 )
* 1969 – Sebastian Spence, Canadian actor
* 1807 – Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet ( d. 1873 )
The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.
* 1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer, father to Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1695 )
* 1988 – Sebastian Tyrała, Polish footballer
* 1724 – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, German son of Johann Sebastian Bach ( d. 1763 )
* 1980 – Sebastian Kehl, German footballer
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