nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor the West, nor the land, nor the sea . . . My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless.Rumi, a poet and mystic of Persian culture, was born in what is today Afghanistan and died in what is now Turkey.
from René Wadlow's The Flutes of Dionysus: Newropeans Magazine: Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
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On the morning of October 27th, [John] Calvin went to see [Michael] Severtus in his cell and told Servetus that he bore him no ill-will and reminded him of how in their early days in Paris, he had worked to convert Servetus from his errors. Servetus did not make a deathbed revision. Servetus was burned on a small hill about a mile outside the city walls of Geneva.
Servetus was the only case of a man put to death for his religious opinions in Calvin's Geneva.
from René Wadlow: Toward Freedom: Michael Servetus: To Kill a Man Does Not Defend an Idea
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