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Idelette Storder de Bure Calvin (died 1549) was the only wife of the French reformer John Calvin (Jean Cauvin). ==Life== Idelette de Bure came from Gelderland in the Netherlands and first married John Storder from Liège. At some stage they moved to Strasburg where they were recorded as being Anabaptists. Idelette and John Storder had several children before Storder died after a brief illness, leaving Idelette a widow.〔http://www.the-highway.com/Idelette.html〕 Calvin was so caught up in his labors that he did not seem to consider marriage until age 30 or so. He asked friends to help him find a woman who was "chaste, obliging, not fastidious, economical, patient, and careful for (his) health".〔(Philip Schaff, ''History of the Christian Church'', Vol. VIII )〕 His fellow laborer Martin Bucer had known Idelette and recommended her to Calvin in confidence that she would fit the bill. They married in August 1540. Idelette bore Calvin one son and possibly a few daughters, all of whom died in infancy. In response to the slander of Catholics who took this for a judgment upon them for being heretics, Calvin said he was content with his many sons in the faith. Idelette busied herself attending to Calvin in his many illnesses, faithfully visiting the sick and afflicted, and making her home a refuge for those who fled for their lives and their faith. Though she survived the plague when it ravaged Geneva, Idelette died after a lengthy illness in 1549. Upon her deathbed she was patient, and her words, edifying, e.g.: "O God of Abraham, and of all our fathers, in thee have the faithful trusted during so many past ages, and none of them have trusted in vain. I also will hope".〔(Philip Schaff, ''History of the Christian Church'', Vol. VIII )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Idelette Calvin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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