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Italian Reformation. Select Memoirs of Italian Protestant Confessors
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No . II . Bernard Ochinus . *
" npHE whole life of Ochin was a JL paradox . " Such is the statement with which a Catholic writer commences his memoir of this
celebrated person $ f and certainly , if we are to receive as credible all that has been related of him by friends and enemies , among Catholics and Protestants , his character will appear to be made up of the most discordant qualities that ever were found united in
the same individual ; for he is alternately represented as the greatest and the weakest of men , the most exemplary saint , and the most profligate sinner , a zealous and devoted confessor in the cause of truth , and the most shuffling prevaricator and hypocrite ; an angel of light and a fiend of darkness ; novus Satan et films
tenebrarum . Bernard Ochin was a native of Sienna , in Tuscany , where he was born about the year 1487 . Of his parents nothing certain is known : it is probable that they were of a humble condition in life , as the son appears to
have enjoyed few advantages of early education , and evidently owed his advancement and celebrity to his personal conduct , and the native force of his extraordinary genius . He seems to have known but little of Latin . Of his native tongue he was an accomplished master , wrote it with great
* This name is variously spelt . In Latin writers it is commonly written O chirms , sometimes O echinus , and occasionally Octflum . In the title-pages of his Italian works it is printed uniformly Ochino .
Hie name is abbreviated from Occhiolino , which is a diminutive of Occhio % $ n eye , an 4 has the same meaning as t ^ ie Lajiin Ocellum , " a little eye . " By French writers it is written Okiri .
t Lamy , Histoire du Socihianisme , p . 229 .
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purity , and spoke it , in his public discourses , with a fluency and a force of eloquence which charmed and captivated his hearers . Early m life he became a monk of the order of St .
Francis , and took the habit of the Cordeliers . In 1534 he exchanged his habit for that of the Capuchins . This was a reformed branch of the same order , who pretended to observe the
rule of St . Francis with greater strictness , and derived their name from the long and pointed form of their hoods , which , they maintained , bore the nearest resemblance to that which had
been worn by St . Francis himself . Beza and others , with unaccountable inaccuracy , have represented Ochin as the founder of the Capuchins - but this honour , whatever it may be ,
belongs to a fanatical monk of the name of Matthew de Bassi , who was shortly joined by a man of greater talent , Louis de Fossombrone , who chiefly contributed to the final establishment
of the order . The Capuchins made their first appearance in 1525 ; the order was confirmed by a Bull of < 31 ement the Seventh in 1528 ; and they are reckoned to have been three hundred in number by the year 1534 , when Ochin took their habit . *
Ochin observed the rul # s of his order with exemplary strictness , and by the austerity of his manners , and the sanctity of his life , secured universal ? See a curious little work intituled , < c La Guerre S £ raphique , ou Histoltfe des Perils qu'a courus La Barbe des Ckpuchins par les violentes Attaques des Cordeliers . La Haye , 1740 . " Under this quaint title the author has published an account of the ris ^ and <|| k < blishment of the Capuchins , with ther >| pw of correcting the mistakes and exposing the extravagances of Boverius , the proffered annalist of the order .
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— No . CCFII . ] NOVEMBER , 1822 . [ Vol . XVII .
Italian Reformation. Select Memoirs Of Italian Protestant Confessors
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/1/
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