Large numbers found refuge in other lands.

During the reign of Henry II fourteen hundred fled to Geneva, not to mention the many who settled in the Netherlands, England, and Germany.
[Sidenote: Protestant growth] Far from lying passive, the Calvinists took the offensive not only by writing and preaching but by attacking the images of the saints.

Many of these were broken or defaced.

One student in the university of Paris smashed the images of the Virgin and St.Sebastian and a stained glass window representing the crucifixion, and posted up placards attacking the cult of the saints.

For this he was pilloried three times and then shut into a small hole walled in on all sides {205} save for an aperture through which food was passed him until he died.
Undaunted by persecution the innovators continued to grow mightily in numbers and strength.