1570 An Ecclesiastical Exposition of the Gospels

Printed: London

Large Quarto

A Catholike and Ecclesiasticall Exposition of the Holy Gospell after S. Mathewe, gathered out of all the Singuler and Approued Deuines (whiche the Lorde hath geuen to his Churche) by Augustin Marlorat (1506 - 1562) At the age of eight he was placed in an Augustinian monastery, where he took the vows and was ordained priest in 1524. Nine years later he was abbot of a monastery at Bourges, but, becoming indoctrinated with the principles of Protestantism, he left France in 1535 and took refuge in Geneva, where he worked as a proof-reader for Greek and Hebrew.

Marlorat likewise addressed a printed petition to Catharine de' Medici, in which he asserted the loyalty of the Protestants, and in August of the same year he was summoned to the Colloquy at Poissy. In debates there with the doctors of the Sorbonne, in January 1562, on images and baptism, he was one of the three spokesmen of the Protestants.

Also in 1562 Marlorat was appointed one of the three heads of the new government, which still professed to be loyal to the king. Later that same year the city was invested by an army under the command of the Duc d'Aumale, who, however, was forced to retire on June 12. On Sept. 29 a second force led by Charles IX of France and others appeared before the city. Marlorat and his family were captured and imprisoned. Three days later he was tried before the parliament on a charge of high treason, and on October 30 was condemned to be executed in front of the church in which he had preached. The sentence was carried out on the following day.