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THE PIETY OF TOWNSPEOPLE AND CITY FOLK
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THE PIETY OF TOWNSPEOPLE AND CITY FOLK

RAYMOND A. Mentzer
Reformation Christianity, p.23
Fortress Press
03/03/2010
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1hqdj5n.8

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Abstract

In the mid-1550s, Antoine Cathelan, a former Franciscan monk, departed his native France and, in the course of travel, spent seven months at the nearby Reformed city of Lausanne. Though ultimately unsympathetic to Protestantism, he noted with particular interest the interior arrangement of the edifices for worship: “It is exactly like the interior of a school. Benches are everywhere and a pulpit for the preacher in the middle. The women and children are seated on low benches in front of the pulpit, while around them the men are on higher ones, without differentiation of status.”¹ This Catholic eyewitness had plainly

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