Sebastian Bazan
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Ludovico
- Other names
- Sebastiano Basano and Sebastiano Bazano
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Pancalieri, Duchy of Savoy
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Unmarried
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Tradesman
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 26 April 1622
- End date
- 22 November 1623
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Turin
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Senate of Piedmont
- Notes
Start date: arrest
End date: sentence
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Turin
- Local judge
- Camillo Balliani
- Sentence date
- 22 November 1623
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Obstinacy in the Reformed faith (Waldensianism)
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 23 November 1623
- Authority
- Duke of Savoy
- Execution place
- Turin, Duchy of Savoy, Porta Palazzo
- Execution type
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Unknown
- Name of the comforters
- Presence of rebels / riots
- Unknown
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
Sebastiano Bazano to Pierre Gilles, Turin, 14 July 1622 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, p. 133)
Sebastiano Bazano to Jean-Vincent Gosio, Turin, 15 May 1622; Turin, 26 May 1622; Turin, 17 June 1622; Turin, 19 June 1622; Turin, 21 June 1622 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, pp. 133-135)
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières and Constable of France, to Carlo Emanuele I, duke of Savoy, Paris, 15 February 1623 (edited in Tarantino, ’I am contented to die’, p. 135)
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Blair Adam, History of the Waldenses, vol. 2, Edinburgh, Black, 1833, pp. 357-358
Blanchard Amos, Book of Martyrs, Or, A History of the Lives, Sufferings and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive and Protestant Martyrs, from the Introduction of Christianity, to the Latest Periods of Pagan, Popish, Protestant, and Infidel Persecutions, Kingston, Ellis, 1844, p. 137
Gilles Pierre, Histoire ecclésiastique des Eglises Réformées, recueillies en quelques Valées de Piedmont, et circonuoisines, autrefois appelées Eglises Vaudoises, commençant des l’an 1160 de nostre Seigneur, et finissant en l’an mil sex cent quarante trois, Genève, Iean de Tournes, 1644, pp. 426-431
Waldenser Chronick, Das ist, Von dem Harkommen, Lehr und Leben wie auch vielfaltigen Verfolgungen der Evangelischen Christen Waldenser genant. Von dem 1160. bis in das 1655. Jahr, Schaffhausen, Suter, 1655, p. 343
Hislop Alexander, The Red Republic; or, Scarlet-Coloured Beast of the Apocalypse: Being An Inquiry into the Period of the Prophesying of the Two Witnesses, and the Character of the Beast That Kills Them, Edinburgh, William Whyte, 1849, p. 44
Janeway Jacob Jones, Antidote to the Poison of Popery in the Writings and Conduct of Professors Nevin & Schaff, Professors in the German Reformed Church in the U. S. of America, New Brunswick, Terhune, 1856, p. 213
McCabe James Dabney, Cross and Crown, or, The Sufferings and Triumphs of the Heroic Men and Women Who Were Persecuted for the Religion of Jesus Christ, Cincinnati-Memphis-Atlanta-Philadelphia-Chicago, National Publishing Company-Jones Brothers, 1874, pp. 167-174
Muston Alexis, L’Israël des Alpes. Première histoire complète des Vaudois du Piémont et de leurs colonies, composée en grande partie sur des documents inédits, avec l’indication des sources et des autorités, vol. 2, Paris, Marc Ducloux, 1851, pp. 229-237
Priestley Joseph, The Theological and Miscellaneous Works, vol. 10, A General History of the Christian Church from the Fall of the Western Empire, Northumberland, 1803, p. 337
Récit véritable de la mort d’un fidèle martyr, brusié vif à Turin, pour la confession de l’Evangile, n.p., 1624
Reece Richard, A Compendious Martyrology, Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Constancy of Christians, in the Different Persecutions which Have Raged against Them under Pagan and Popish Governments, vol. 2, London, Thomas Cordeux, 1813, p. 197
Sketches of the Waldenses, London, The Religious Tract Society, 1846, pp. 121-23
Waerachtich verhael, van de doodt van Sebastiaen Basan Geboorten tot Pancalier in Piedmont, Constant Martelaer levendich verbrandt tot Turim, om de belijdenisse van’t Euangelie, den 23. Nouembris 1623, Den Haag, Aert Meuris, 1624
Worsfold John Napper, The Vaudois of Piedmont: A Visit to their Valleys with a Sketch of Their Remarkable History as a Church and People to the Present Date, London, Shaw, 1873, p. 43
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
