Calvin Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/calvin/ To prepare people for eternal life. Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:36:15 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.stepstolife.org/WordPress21/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Cross-from-STL-Bible-Study-Logo512-32x32.jpg Calvin Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/calvin/ 32 32 John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland https://www.stepstolife.org/article/john-calvin-geneva-switzerland/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:36:15 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6273 Calvin would spend the second half of his life in the little city of Geneva and would make it famous as the center of Protestantism and a place of refuge for the exiles of his native France and other persecuting countries.

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