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In this opposition they were aided in part by Bern, which was opposed to the tenet of excom- munication. The radicalism of Farel and Calvin was also displeasing to the people. Farel had early abolished all holidays except Sunday, the use of unleavened bread in the communion, and the baptismal fonts. Here, too, Bern sup- ported the opponents of the Genevese reformers, being itself less radical in its reforms and having some political aspirations touching the acquisition of influence in Geneva. I...n the February elections of 1538 the party of opposition elected the four syndics and a majority of the members of the Great Council. The new rulers moved with prudence. They instituted some measures furthering the work of re- form ; but they enforced the Bernese customs, and they did nothing to suppress the popular vices. The preachers Calvin and the Genevan Reformation. 37 therefore thundered against them, with the result first of the banishment of Corault and later that of Farel and Cal- vin.
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