Among those convicted of adultery were two of Calvin's own female relatives, his brother's wife and his step-daughter Judith.
What success there was in making Geneva a city of saints was due to the fact that it gradually became a very select population.

The worst of the incorrigibles were soon either executed or banished, and their places taken by a large influx of {175} men of austere mind, drawn thither as a refuge from persecution elsewhere, or by the desire to sit at the feet of the great Reformer.

Between the years 1549 and 1555 no less than 1297 strangers were admitted to citizenship.

Practically all of these were immigrants coming to the little town for conscience's sake.
[Persecution] Orthodoxy was enforced as rigidly as morality.

The ecclesiastical constitution adopted in 1542 brought in the Puritan type of divine service.