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About this Episode: John Calvin, the Reformer, thought little of marriage until he lived for a short while with a pastor and his wife whose home was known as “the inn of righteousness.” Their happy marriage made an impression upon Calvin, and he realized that he needed someone to take care of him. He told his associates he was in the market for a wife who was not too fussy or fastidious, who was economical, patient, and interested in his health. Soon after giving up his search for a wife, a friend encouraged him to consider a widow in Calvin’s church. It wasn’t long before Calvin, Idelette, and her two children became a family. Though they only had nine years together before tuberculosis took Idelette, Calvin grieved that his best life’s companion had been taken from him, and he never remarried.

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