According to one's faith, either a divine revelation of religious truth was at hand or the punishment of God was being loosed upon a sinful world. Broken relationships are a reality in a broken world. Consequently, on the eve of the Wars of Religion, the triumph of French Protestantism seemed not just possible but, to many, inexorable. Try 6 issues for only 9.99 when you subscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC. By the 1560s, perhaps 1,250 churches were serving an adult population of 2 million so-called 'Huguenots', about 10 per cent of the total population of the State, including amongst them a third of the French aristocracy. Churches burgeoned and congregations swelled as the Calvinist movement grew in spectacular style, attracting followers from every social class. His ideas were never to find a natural home in France, but a different form of the religion, stemming from Calvin's Geneva, won supporters and gained coherence from the middle of the century. Within 20 years of Martin Luther pinning his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, a Protestant Reformation had begun to take shape in northern Europe.
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