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 Protestant Revolt in Switzerland and England 321 the Lake of Zurich, which was the center of pilgrimages on ac- count of a wonder-working image. " Here," he says, " I began to preach the Gospel of Christ in the year 1516, before anyone in my locality had so much as heard the name of Luther." But the original cantons about the Lake of Lucern, which feared that they might lose the great influence that, in spite of their small size, they had hitherto enjoyed, were ready to fight for the old faith. The first armed collision between the Swiss Protestants and Catholics took place at Kappel in 1531, and Zwingli fell in the battle. The various cantons and towns never came to an agreement in religious matters, and Switzerland is still part Catholic and part Protestant. 543. Calvin (1509-1564) and the Presbyterian Church. Far more important than Zwingli 's teachings, especially for England and America, was the work of Calvin, which was carried on in the ancient city of Geneva, on the very outskirts of the Swiss Confederation. It was Calvin who organized the Presbyterian Church and formulated its beliefs. Born in northern France in 1509, he belonged to the second generation of Protestants. He was early influenced by the Lutheran teachings, which had al- ready found their way into France. A persecution of the Protes- tants under Francis I drove him out of the country. At Basel he issued his great work, The Institute of Christianity. It was the first orderly exposition of the principles of Christianity from a Protestant standpoint and formed a convenient manual for study and discussion. Calvin was called to Geneva about 1540 and intrusted with the task of reforming the town, which had secured its independ- ence of the duke of Savoy. Calvin intrusted the management of church affairs to the ministers and the elders, or presbyters] hence the name "Presbyterian." The Protestantism which found its way into France was that of Calvin, not that of Luther, and the same may be said of Scotland ( 575).