The citizens rose under Bonivard, renounced the authority of the pope, expelled the bishop and broke up the religious houses.

To guard against the vengeance of the duke, a league was made with Berne and Freiburg.
On October 2, 1532, William Farel arrived from Berne.

At Geneva as elsewhere tumult followed his {169} preaching, but it met with such success that by January, 1534, he held a disputation which decided the city to become evangelical.

The council examined the shrines [Sidenote: 1535] and found machinery for the production of bogus miracles; provisionally abolished the mass; [Sidenote: May 21, 1536] and soon after formally renounced the papal religion.
At this point Calvin arrived, and began preaching and organizing at once.

He soon aroused opposition from the citizens, galled at his strictness and perhaps jealous of a foreigner.