Servetus
MICHAEL (properly MIGUEL SERVEDE), a learned Spaniard , memorable as a victim of religious intolerance; born in Villa Nueva, Arragon, Spain, in 1511; was the son of a notary , who sent him to Toulouse to study civil law. Here he began to give his attention to theology, and having formed views of the Trinity antagonistic to the orthodox doctrine he removed to Germany , where いいし MICHAEL SERVETUS SERVICE MEDALS tufts. Body about 40 inches, tail 16 Calvin was especially urgent and emphatic as to the necessity of putting him to death. As he refused to retract his opinions he was burnt at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 27, 1553. Servetus is numbered among the anatomists who made the nearest approach to the doctrine of the circulation of the blood.