# Calvin’s weekday preaching cycle makes scripture a dated public teaching instrument in Geneva Date: 1549 ## The fact Through the 1540s–50s [Calvin](/people/john-calvin) preached a dense weekday and Sunday cycle in Geneva, later transcribed. It is not the Ordinances as a twin and not the Academy as a building. It is one event. ## Context MIR and the Meeter Center independently treat the sermon cycle as a public file. Discipline of hearers sits on the consistory row. John Calvin’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Conventional years are 1509–1564. Surviving public files are later museum pages, consistory editions, Meeter Center collections, and encyclopedias. Calvin did not typeset those later pages. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources MIR and the Meeter Center independently describe Calvin’s Genevan preaching cycle as a documented public practice. Official or archival record: International Museum of the Reformation — Geneva (https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/; Fondation du Musée international de la Réforme). ## Significance Education-access path. High confidence on the practice; medium on unique attendance numbers. ## What is established and what is not Established: Calvin preached a regular Genevan cycle. Not established: a unique literacy census from those sermons. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by John Calvin. They are not a public rating. John Calvin did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. A sermon is not a 1553 sentence. Keep Champel off the pulpit row. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of John Calvin. ## People - John Calvin: https://factrail.ai/people/john-calvin ## Drivers - Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access ## Sources - https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/ - https://calvin.edu/meeter-center ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-preaching-scripture