Porral as chief magistrate

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Often appears with: unity of the church · reconciliation between cities · justice as a virtue · funeral rites and burial · equity, mercy, and pardon · deathbed exhortations

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“Thereupon he spoke in such a luminous manner on the work of the ministry, and all the benefits which accompany or flow from it as the means of grace, that we were both of us in a sort of stupor of astonishment.” Jean Calvin, Letters of John Calvin, Volume I · vivid

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Jean Calvin · c. 1540s–1564 (letters collected here; selection dating over Calvin’s lifetime; compiled in the 16th c. by Beza/Jonvillers)
LETTER PAGE > letter, p. 286) not having been quieted by the arbitration of the (16/23)

In a June 16, 1542 letter from Geneva, Calvin recounts the deathbed of magistrate Porral, emphasizing his lucid Christian testimony, unity of the Church, and advice to seek reconciliation between allied cities.

GENEVA, *16th June 1542*. Would that I might attain to that discipline in contempt of this present life, and in the meditation of a holy death, as the experience of the past year, in the deaths of many pious persons, may well have brought me. Porral, the chief magistrate of the city, has departed to the Lord; his death, which could not be other than occasion of sadness to us, has been bitterly lamented. The manner o…