“[John Calvin] loved children, and he had them at his house for Christmas trees;” Thomas M. Lindsay, A history of the Reformation vol. 2, 1917, p.154.
“[John Calvin] preached a special sermon for Christmas Day, which I have included in this volume. On Easter Day, 1559, and on Easter Day, 1560, he preached a special sermon, which I have included in this volume.” Leroy Nixon, Calvin’s Sermons: The Deity of Christ & other Sermons, Eerdman’s Publishing Co., 1950, preface.
"Let me here also challenge what is often said to be an accepted fact, namely, that John Calvin himself took no notice of any Christian calendar. T. H. L. Parker (in Calvin’s Preaching [Louisville, Ky.: Westminster, John Knox Press, 1992], pp. 160–62) marshals evidence from extant records to show that in the years 1549, 1550, and 1553 Calvin broke off the sermon series he was then preaching and delivered messages specifically on Christ’s nativity, on his death and resurrection, and on Pentecost at the "appropriate" times"
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