Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history on this episode we're

going to look at Calvin at college. We think of the reformers and

we see them in their portraits as accomplished great men near the end of their

lives and that's mostly how we think of them but we need to realize that there was a time when

John Calvin was not John Calvin.

He was just a young kid making his way to college.

Calvin was born in 1509 in Neueon and in 1523 and if you do the math

he's 12 years old going on 13 he travels about 110 kilometers to the south and slightly to the west to the big city of Paris and he enrolls at the College de Montegoe.

The college dates back to 1314.

It was one of the earliest colleges of the University of Paris,

and that university is one of the oldest of the European universities.

In 1200, it was chartered by the King of France,

but its roots go back to 1045

when the University of Paris, the Sorbonne,

as it is known, first started as a cathedral school.

Well, back to the College Day Montegoe.

In the 1480s and 1490s, it emerged as one of the top theological colleges of the University

of Paris.

Noel Beda was the principal or the president of the college from 15004 to 1514. Under him the college became entrenched in

Roman Catholic Orthodoxy in the face of the rising French humanists and Beta was bent on reacting and

responding to the humanists. One of the cries of the humanists was Advantes

to go back to the found, back to the source. That would include going

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