Josephus Adjutus

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According to Wikipedia, Josephus Adjutus , was a famous Chaldean theologian. He advanced some fundamental theories on religion during the Reformation, and criticized corruption in the Catholic church. Biography Josephus was born in Mosul, in present-day Iraq. He apparently came from a family of Chaldean Catholics. After his parents died in 1606, relatives sent Josephus to be brought up in Jerusalem. Until 1613, he lived and was educated in Palestine in a monastery of the Friars Minor, a Franciscan Order. He was made a Deacon in 1632 under Pope Urban VIII. Five years later, in 1637, he earned the title of Doctor of Theology at the Collegium Bononiensis in Bologna. After periods in Vienna, Prague and Dresden, he moved to Wittenberg, which he saw as the "new Jerusalem". Above all, in Wittenberg, he turned against the Catholic Church.

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