biography
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Socinus, Faustus
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Ital Fausto Paulo Sozini
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pronunciation:
[sosiynus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1539–1604)
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| biography:
| Protestant reformer, whose work heralded the founding of the Socinian sect, born in Siena, C Italy. He studied theology at Basel, where he developed the anti-Trinitarian doctrines of his uncle, Laelius Socinus. He became secretary to Duke Orsini in Florence (1563–75). In 1578, on the publication of his De Jesu Christo Servatore, he narrowly escaped assassination, and moved to Poland, where he became leader of an anti-Trinitarian branch of the Reformed Church in Kraków. At the synod of Bresz in 1588 he argued against all the chief Christian dogmas. In 1590 he was denounced by the Inquisition, and became destitute. |
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