LeFevre d'Etaples-He Wanted the Common People to Know God's Word

 ON A Sunday Morning in the early 1520's, the inhabitants of Meaux, a small town near  Paris, could not believe what they heard in church.  They had listened to the reading of the Gospels in their mother tongue-in French instead of Latin!

The Bible translator who was behind this initiative, Jaques Lefevre d'Etaples (Latin , Jacobus Stapulensis), later  wrote to a close friend:  "You can scarcely imagine with what ardor God is moving the minds of the simple [people] in some places to embrace his Word."

At that time, the Catholic Church and the  theologians in Paris opposed the use of translations of the Bible in common languages, So, what moved Lefevre to translate the Bible into French? And how did he manage to help the common people  tp understand God's Word?

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