Execution of Michael Servetus
1553 · Event
Spanish physician and anti-Trinitarian theologian Michael Servetus is burned at the stake in Calvin's Geneva — the Reformation's most notorious act of intolerance, and a spur to later arguments for freedom of conscience.
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