ABSTRACT
The Protestant French theologian Jean Calvin (1509–1564), founder of Calvinism as a theological movement, fled first to Strasbourg and then to Geneva in 1536 to avoid persecution by the French Crown. In Geneva, Calvin and his supporters in the town council established the Ecclesiastical Ordinances on 20 November 1541 and created an ecclesiastical court composed of Calvinist ministers and elders, the Consistory, to police the religious and moral beliefs of the citizens of Geneva. Those who were perceived to threaten the religious and moral harmony of Gene-van society were summoned to appear before the members of the Consistory and their depositions were recorded. Below are the cases of the Brothers Curtet (27 April 1542), Jana Bossey (25 October 1543), and Pierre Tissot and his family (1 November 1543).
