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Michel Servet , né le 29 septembre 1511 à Villanueva de Sigena dans le Royaume d'Aragon et mort le 27 octobre 1553 à Genève, est un théologien et médecin espagnol, naturalisé français en 1548.

L'un des hommes les plus savants de son temps, il s'intéresse à toutes les branches du savoir, de la géographie aux mathématiques, de l'alchimie à l'astrologie, de la médecine à la théologie.

Le médecin pense découvrir la circulation pulmonaire mais les arabes l'avaient déjà découvert 300 ans avant . Le penseur développe une théologie radicale qui refuse le dogme de la Trinité, et remet en question la nature divine du Christ, ce qui lui vaut une double condamnation à mort par les catholiques et les protestants.

Arrêté, évadé et jugé par contumace, il est brûlé en effigie par l'Inquisition à Vienne. Souhaitant se réfugier en Italie, il fait halte à Genève. Reconnu, il est emprisonné puis jugé par le Conseil des Deux-Cents de Genève, à l'instigation de Jean Calvin qu'il avait attaqué. Condamné pour hérésie et refusant d'abjurer, il est brûlé vif le 27 octobre 1553 dans des circonstances particulièrement cruelles. il compte au nombre des martyrs de la pensée.

✵ 1511 – 27. octobre 1553
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Michel Servet: Citations en anglais

“Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes”

Letter to Oecolampadius, an hebraist of Basel, as quoted by Francisco Javier González Echeverría, and translated by Otis Towns & Miguel González Ancín in the English "Introduction" at Michael Servetus Rresearch http://www.michaelservetusresearch.com/ENGLISH/
Contexte: Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes … If one must condemn everyone that misses in a particular point then every mortal would have to be burnt a thousand times. The apostles and Luther himself have been mistaken … If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

“Michael Servetus, alone, but trusting in Christ’s most sure protection.”

While in prison, Servetus signed his last letter with these words.
Michael Servetus—A Solitary Quest for the Truth (2006)

“I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.”

Letter to Oecolampadius, an hebraist of Basel, as quoted by Francisco Javier González Echeverría, and translated by Otis Towns & Miguel González Ancín in the English "Introduction" at Michael Servetus Rresearch http://www.michaelservetusresearch.com/ENGLISH/
Contexte: Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes … If one must condemn everyone that misses in a particular point then every mortal would have to be burnt a thousand times. The apostles and Luther himself have been mistaken … If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.

“Poor people always lose in struggles.”

A sentence from his first edition of Ptolemy's Geography (1535)

“In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity… We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ.”

At the age of 20, he published On the Errors of the Trinity, a work that made him a principal target of the Inquisition.
Michael Servetus—A Solitary Quest for the Truth (2006)

“I do not agree or disagree in everything with either one party or the other. Because all seem to me to have some truth and some error, but everyone recognizes the other’s error and nobody discerns his own.”

Statement with respect to both Catholics and Protestants written after his work On the Errors of the Trinity
Michael Servetus—A Solitary Quest for the Truth (2006)

“I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.”

Such considerations were reinforced when he attended the coronation of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII, and witnessed the Pope, seated on his portable throne, receive the king, who kissed his feet.
Michael Servetus—A Solitary Quest for the Truth (2006)

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