| 词条 | Idelette Calvin |
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| name = Idelette Stordeur de Bure (Boer) Calvin | image = Idelette Calvin.jpg | alt = Hip-high portrait of a woman wearing a dark blue dress with a white standup collar and elbow-length sleeves | caption = | birth_name = Idelette de Bure | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = None; a housewife | known_for = Only wife of John Calvin }} Idelette Stordeur de Bure Calvin (born 1500, died 1549) was the only wife of the French reformer John Calvin (Jean Calvin). LifeIdelette de Bure came from Flanders and first married John Stordeur from Liège. At some stage they moved to Strasburg where they were recorded as being Anabaptists. Idelette and John Stordeur had two children (Charles, Judith) before Stordeur died after a brief illness, leaving Idelette a widow.[1] Calvin was so caught up in his labors that he did not seem to consider marriage until age 30 or so. He asked friends to help him find a woman who was "chaste, obliging, not fastidious, economical, patient, and careful for (his) health".[2] His fellow laborer Martin Bucer had known Idelette and recommended her to Calvin in confidence that she would fit the bill. They married in August 1540. Idelette bore Calvin one son and possibly a few daughters, all of whom died in infancy.[3] In response to the slander of Catholics who took this for a judgment upon them for being heretics, Calvin said he was content with his many sons in the faith. Idelette busied herself attending to Calvin in his many illnesses, faithfully visiting the sick and afflicted, and making her home a refuge for those who fled for their lives and their faith. Though she survived the plague when it ravaged Geneva, Idelette died after a lengthy illness in 1549. Upon her deathbed she was patient, and her words, edifying, e.g.: "O God of Abraham, and of all our fathers, in thee have the faithful trusted during so many past ages, and none of them have trusted in vain. I also will hope".[4] Calvin on IdeletteWhat Calvin wrote to Pierre Viret some days after her death will illustrate her character further. {{quote|I have been bereaved of the best companion of my life, of one who, had it been so ordered, would not only have been the willing sharer of my indigence, but even of my death. During her life she was the faithful helper of my ministry.|John Calvin|Letter to Pierre Viret, 1549 [5]}}and, Notes1. ^http://www.the-highway.com/Idelette.html 2. ^Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. VIII 3. ^{{Citation|last=Gordon|first=F. Bruce|year=2009|title=Calvin|publisher=Yale University Press US|isbn=978-0-300-12076-9|page=88}} 4. ^Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. VIII 5. ^{{Citation|last=Steinmetz|first=David Curtis|year=1995|title=Calvin in Context|publisher=Oxford University Press US|isbn=0-19-509165-5|page=15}} 6. ^{{Citation|last=McKee|first=Elsie Anne|year=2001|title=John Calvin writings on pastoral piety|publisher=Paulist Press|isbn=0-8091-4046-2|page=54}} See also
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