Word: servetus
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...cope with their families." Some of Calvin's decisions have darker and more far-reaching echoes. Prefiguring Salem, he allows some 30 "witches" to be burned, drowned or hanged as scapegoats during an epidemic. And he becomes, like so many rebels, fiercely doctrinaire, letting the refugee heretic Michael Servetus go to the stake...