Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

Back in 58 BC, Julius Caesar arrived in Geneva.

Now, if you were to arrive in Geneva today, I would suggest five sites for you to visit to get a sense of Calvin's Geneva.

The first is the site of Calvin's house.

It is on Calvin Street and just outside of where his house would have stood

there is Calvin's well and it is actually the well from which Calvin would have drawn water and right near the well is a street

light. It is the last remaining streetlight of the 16th century streetlights. It

really wasn't so much a streetlight as it was

holding a fire pot to illumine the street as Calvin made his way back home

after a long day at the Cathedral.

Well, he lived in that house from 1554 to 1564

at the time of his death.

And after he died, Theodore Baza moved in

and he lived there from 1564 to 1605. The house was demolished

in 1706 and a big building was built on the side of it and today it houses the offices of the secondary schools of Geneva

but there is a plaque and the street upon which it sits is named Calvin Street.

So that's the first site. The second is named Calvin Street.

So that's the first site.

The second site is where Calvin worked, the cathedral of St. Peter's.

Christianity came to Geneva in 313. And from the 400s on there was a church on this site. It was in the

1100s that construction began on the cathedral and in 1536 in the square right in front of the cathedral the town of Geneva

gathered and voted to become a reformed city and there Calvin preached and of

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