Michael Servetus, living between 1511 and 1553, was the first to discover
the pulmonary circulation of blood. This bold Spaniard was a scientist
ahead of his time. ...
Servetus was refused an advocate at the trial, being told with grim humor
that he could lie well enough without one. ...
Disbelieving what was happening to him, he was burned at the stake over
green wood so that it took three hours for him to die. Servetus met his
death with steadfastness and prayer, calling upon the Son of the eternal
God to grant him mercy. ...
The responsibility rests heavily enough on Calvin, but it rests still more
upon the intolerant spirit of the age. After 1600 persons were rarely
executed on this charge. 
The Reformation made toleration possible but it began with no such
intention. The states and churches of a divided Europe found in the end
that it must tolerate or die. Years later, Genevan Calvinists erected a
"expiatory monument" on the site of the burning, not to signify approval of
Servetus' views but as a testimony to their disapproval of violence as an
instrument for the defence of orthodoxy.*

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