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SARAVIA, ADRIAN (1531—1613)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARAVIA, See also:ADRIAN (1531—1613) , theologian, was See also:born at Hesdin, Pas-de-See also:Calais, of a See also:Spanish See also:father and Flemish See also:mother, both Protestants. He entered the See also:ministry at See also:Antwerp, had a See also:hand in the Walloon See also:Confession and gathered a Walloon See also:congregation in See also:Brussels. He migrated to the Channel Islands See also:early in the reign of See also:Elizabeth; and, after a See also:period as schoolmaster, officiated (1564—1566) at St See also:Peter's, See also:Guernsey, then under Presbyterian discipline. Subsequently he held the mastership of the See also:grammar school at See also:Southampton, and in 1582 was See also:professor of divinity and See also:minister of the reformed See also:church at See also:Leiden. From Leiden he wrote (9 See also:June 1585) to See also:Lord See also:Burghley advising the See also:assumption of the See also:protectorate of the See also:Low Countries by Elizabeth. He became domiciled in See also:England in 1587--1588, leaving See also:Holland on the See also:discovery of his complicity in a See also:political See also:plot, and was appointed (I 588) See also:rector of Tattenhall, See also:Staffordshire. His first See also:work, De diversis gradibus ministrorum Evangelii (1590; in See also:English, 1592, and reprinted), was an See also:argument for See also:episcopacy, which led to a controversy with See also:Theodore See also:Beza, and gained him See also:incorporation (9 June 1590) as D.D. at See also:Oxford, and a prebend at See also:Gloucester (22 Oct. 1591). On 6th See also:December 1595 he was admitted to a canonry at See also:Canterbury (which he resigned in 1602), and in the same See also:year to the vicarage of See also:Lewisham, See also:Kent, where he became an intimate friend of See also:Richard See also:Hooker, his near See also:neighbour, whom he absolved on his deathbed. He was made See also:prebendary of See also:Worcester (1601) and of See also:Westminster (5 See also:July 16oi). In 1604, or early in 1605, he presented to See also:James I. his Latin See also:treatise on the See also:Eucharist, which remained in the Royal Library unprinted, till in 1885 it was published (with See also:translation and introduction) by See also:Archdeacon G. A.

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Denison. In 1607 he was nominated one of the translators of the Authorised Version of 1611, his See also:part being See also:Genesis to end of See also:Kings ii. On the 23rd of See also:March 1610 he exchanged Lewisham for the rectory of See also:Great See also:Chart, Kent. He died at Canterbury on the 15th of See also:January 1612, and was buried in the See also:cathedral on the 19th of January. See the particulars collected in Denison's " See also:Notice of the Author " prefixed to De sacra eucharistia. (A.

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