Hadrian à Saravia
Adrianus Saravia (also: Hadrian Zaravia; * to 1531/32 in Hesdin; † January 15, 1613 in Canterbury ) was a Flemish Reformed theologian.
Life
Saravia was born in the Spanish Netherlands. His father Christopher († 1572) was of Spanish origin and his mother Elizabeth Boulanger († 1578) was from the Flandrischen St. Omer. His first education is unknown. As a young man he joined the Franciscan order and studied by its own account in Paris. In 1557 he resigned from the Franciscan Order and joined the Calvinism. For this purpose he went to Geneva in order to make themselves familiar with the ideas. In 1559 he came to England and moved in summer 1559 to Ghent.
Here he married on June 22, 1561 Catherine d' Allez († February 1, 1605 in Canterbury ) and about the same time he also participated in the formulation of the Dutch Creed ( Confessio Belgica ). Together with her, he traveled to London where he served as pastor of the French Reformed Church. In 1562 he returned to the Netherlands, was Reformed pastor at the Walloon church in Antwerp, and built in 1563, the Walloon municipality in Brussels. The restrictions, which were then brought against the Protestants in Flanders, compelled him again to return to England. In September 1563 he became the first director of the Elizabeth College in Guernsey, which had been founded in the same year.
He also worked as a preacher at the local church of St. Peter. 1568 he became a chaplain in the army of Prince William of Orange, moved to Southampton in 1569, where he in 1572 the rector of the local King Edward VI School took over and supported by the Dutch national movement here. After 1579 the Union of Utrecht had come to pass, he moved to Ghent. When Alessandro Farnese, however, Ghent conquered, he retired as pastor to Leiden, where he asked the British royal family for military support for the Union of Utrecht. In Leiden he was in 1584 appointed professor of theology and was 1585-87 president of the Alma Mater. In addition, he supported Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, the English troops to support the Dutch Union's efforts had provided, and dwelt 1586 National Synod of the Reformed Church in The Hague in.
In 1587 he was involved in a conspiracy and had to flee from Leiden to London. He was removed as a result of his academic post and sentenced by a court to death in absentia. 1588 he found employment as a pastor in deeds Hill. On July 9, 1590, he received the theological doctorate from the University of Oxford. From 1593 to 1595 he built the school in Barton under Needwood on. On November 25, 1595 he was Vicar of Lewisham and on December 6, 1595 canon of the Cathedral of Canterbury. Finally he took over in 1601 a position as dean of Westminster Abbey. In 1604 he had given up the parish in Lewisham.
After his first wife died he married in London in 1606 Margaret Wijts, which after his death put him an epitaph in Canterbury.
Works (selection)
- Een van de hertgrondighe begheerte noble lanckmoedighen hoochgheboren Prince van Oraengien. 1568
- De diversis ministrorum evangelii gradibus. London 1590, English 1591
- De imperandi authoritate et christiana obedienta. 1593
- De Sacra eucharistia. 1605 English 1855 (Treatise on the Wittenberg Concord )
- Examination tractatus de episcoporum triplici genere. 1610