A Turn of Events – From Chaos to Comfort – A History of the Heidelberg Catechism (5)

He was a quiet and gentle boy. He loved books and he loved to study. He was well-suited to be taught in the best of schools. But his father, a tutor, could not afford this. The senate of Breslau, however, noticed how intelligent this boy of their town was. Zacharius Ursinus was sixteen years old when he was sent to the University of Wittenberg by the senate of Breslau. When he was finished with his studies, he would return to Breslau to teach in the university there. That was the senates plan,...