Socinus

American  

[soh-sahy-nuhs] / soʊˈsaɪ nəs /

noun

1. Faustus Fausto Sozzini, 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius (Lelio Sozzini ), 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers.

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Socinus British  

/ səʊˈsaɪnəs /

noun

1. Faustus (ˈfɔːstəs), Italian name Fausto Sozzini, 1539–1604, and his uncle, Laelius (ˈliːlɪəs), Italian name Lelio Sozzini, 1525–62, Italian Protestant theologians and reformers

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Socinus

This was a monument to the fallacy that ideas cannot be crushed by force, for it was the tomb of Faustus Socinus.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above all, Faustus Socinus spread the seeds of this doctrine in Europe; and at the end of the sixteenth century, a new species of Christianity was established.

From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh

Mr. Lindsay acknowledges, that Faustus Socinus himself was not free from persecution in the case of Francis David, superintendent of the Unitarian churches in Transylvania.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Socinus, in treating the subject in his own Institutio, an imperfect catechism which he left, lays much more stress on John xiv.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith

In the Racovian Catechism, of which Faustus Socinus probably drew the first sketch, a clearer light is arrived at.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith