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Brethren In Christ
BY ALAN EYRE


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Giorgio Biandrata 1515-1590

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Born at Saluzzo in the Italian Piedmont, Biandrata studied medicine at the university of Pavia. He was a natural aristocrat: suave, courtly in manner, and greatly respected by the Radziwill, Zapolyai and Bathory royal families which he served on and off as physician, and informal counsellor for forty-five years.

A fair estimate of his character is difficult to make. Italian sources, more than tinged by Catholic bias, consider him a coward and a renegade. Among the Brethren he was treated with respect rather than loved. He seemed to have a certain streak of meanness in him and his conduct during the controversy and division over the adoration issue was not the most commendable.

But there is no doubt that Biandrata worked hard for the Truth for many years, using his position and his undoubted wealth.

 


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