Mathurin
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Marcelin, Maturino, Marcellin, and Marcel Mathurin
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- France
- Date of birth
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
- Waldensianism
Proceedings
- Start date
- 27 February 1560 [arrest]
- End date
- 1 March 1560
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Turin
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Paride Provana, Captain of Justice; Corbis, member of the Senate of Piedmont
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Inquisition of Turin
- Local judge
- Tommaso Giacomelli
- Sentence date
- 01 March 1560
- Sentence place
- Carignano, Duchy of Savoy
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
He was condemned after of the anti-Waldensian edict of the Duke of Savoy (15 February 1560); once imprisoned, he refused to abjure the Reformed faith
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 2 March 1560
- Authority
- Duke of Savoy
- Execution place
- Carignano, Duchy of Savoy
- Execution type
- burned
- 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
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- Unknown
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
Antonio Possevino to Giacomo Laínez, Fossano, 14 March 1560 (edited in Scaduto, Le missioni di A. Possevino, p. 108)
Scipione Lentolo to Théodore de Bèze, March 1561 (edited in Histoire memorable, pp. 150-153 and Tedeschi, An Addition, pp. 444-445)
De Amicis Edmondo, Alle porte d’Italia, Roma, Sommaruga, 1884, p. 222
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Crespin Jean, Histoire des vrays tesmoins de la verité de l’Evangile, [Geneva], 1570, p. 573
De la Place Pierre, Commentaires de l’estat de la religion et république soubs les Rois Henry et François Seconds, et Charles neuvième, 1565, p. 184
Ellis William, The Christian Keepsake and Missionary Annual, vol. 2, London-Paris-New York, Fisher, 1838, p. 90
Foxe John, Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church, vol. 2, London, 1583, p. 957
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. 73-74
Histoire memorable de la guerre faite par le duc de Savoye contre ses subjectz des vallees, ed. Enea Balmas, Vittorio Diena, Torino, Claudiana, 1972, pp. 82-83, 150-153
Johnstone John, Specimens of Sacred, Pathetic and Serious Poetry, Edinburgh-London, Oliver & Boyd-Simpkin, Marshall, 1855, p. 392
Léger Jean, Histoire generale des eglises evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont ou Vaudoises, vol. 2, Leyde, Jean le Carpentier, 1669, pp. 28, 34
Lentolo Scipione, Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte ai tempi nostri in Provenza, Calabria e Piemonte contra il popolo, che chiamano valdese, ed. Teofilo Gay, Torre Pellice, Tipografia Alpina, 1906
Storia delle persecuzioni e guerre contro il popolo chiamato valdese che abita nelle Valli del Piemonte, di Angrogna, Luserna, S. Martino, Perosa e altre, a far tempo dall’anno 1555 fino al 1561, ed. Enea Balmas, Carlo Alberto Theiler, Torino, Claudiana, 1975, p. 97
Martirologio della libertà italiana. Glorie e sventure, Genova, Botto, 1852, pp. 62-63
Rorengo Marco Aurelio, Memorie historiche dell’introduttione dell’heresie nelle valli di Lucerna, Marchesato di Saluzzo, e altre di Piemonte, Torino, Tarino, 1649, p. 40
Stamp John Sundins, Martyrologia, or, Records of Religious Persecution: Being a New and Comprehensive Book of Martyrs, of Ancient and Modern Times, vol. 3, London, John Mason, 1851, p. 519
Turino Giovanni Davide, Giovanna Mathurin, «La Rivista Cristiana», 1, 1873, pp. 361-365
- 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