Bernardino Ochino

Bernardino Ochino (* 1487 in Siena, † 1564 in Slavkov in Moravia ) was a Reformation theologian from Italy.

Life

He was Franciscan, moved in 1524 to the newly established stricter Capuchin Order and was in 1538 the General. A moral way of life and enthusiastic sermons earned him the reputation of a saint. By the Spaniard Juan de Valdés, who had been with Charles V in Germany, he learned the lessons of the German Reformation to know and be known first 1542 in Venice openly.

Loaded by the Pope to Rome, he fled to Geneva, and from there in 1545 to Basel and Augsburg, and finally in 1547 via Strasbourg to London, where he as a preacher of the Italian-speaking Protestant congregation was in his previous residence. 1553 returned to Switzerland, he attracted here by its dogmatic independence the suspicions of the strict Calvinists, and was banished. Wandering with no fixed abode, he died in 1564 in the Moravian town of Austerlitz the plague.