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Article: Woman's name added to Reformation tablet. (News).(Marie Dentiere, Wall of the Reformers, Geneva, Switzerland)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 20, 2002
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Four new names have been chiseled onto the Wall of the Reformers, one of the world's principal monuments of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most visited sites in Geneva, a cradle of the Reformation. Marie Dentiere, a Flemish-born 16th-century lay theologian, took her place on the monument beside Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and other luminaries.
Officially unveiled at a November 3 ceremony, the quartet of names also included better-known early church reformers Peter Valdes (ca. 1140-1217), who inspired the Waldensian movement; John Wycliffe (ca. 1330-1384), who instituted the first English translation of the Bible; and John Hus (ca. 1369-1415), the preacher ...