• Radecius Valentine


    Radecius Valentine

      

    Radecius Valentine ,  (Polon. Radetzki,) was the son of Matthew Radecius, and is designated by Zeltner "Vir perquam facundus." He was known, among the CryptoSocinians of Altorf, by the name of Pancratius Eubulus. There exists a letter of Faust Socin, written Nov. 23rd, 1603, and addressed to him as Pastor of the Church at Clausenburg, and Superintendent of the Unitarian Churches in Transylvania. In the latter office he succeeded Matthew Torotszkai, and he retained it till his death. He was a married man, and the father of a family ; and when Socinus wrote the above-mentioned letter to him, Samuel Niecicius and Michael Gittichius were inmates in his house. In the month of October, 1605, he was appointed Pastor of the German, or Saxon Church at Clausenburg ; but from some cause, which is unexplained, he left Clausenburg, and went to Racow, on the 31st of July, 1608, apparently with the intention of remaining there. At the entreaties of the Church, however, he was induced to return, and resume his ministerial functions at Clausenburg. He visited Racow again, on the 5th of March, 1612, a few weeks before his father's death, at a time when there was a heavy fall of snow, which blocked up the roads, so as to render them, for a time, impassable for travellers. Smalcius makes a special allusion to this in his Diary ; but says, that Radecius returned to Transylvania before the thaw came on. At this time he was still Minister of the German, or Saxon Church at Clausenburg ; and he retained this office to the time of his death, which happened in the year 1631. This we learn from the Manuscript Synodical Acts, in which it is stated, that the Senate of Clausenburg, some time in the course of that year, informed the Synod of Racow of his decease, and made application for some one to take charge of the Congregation over which he had presided.

    He did not publish anything himself ; but a few years after his death, appeared two small pieces by him, bearing the following titles.

    1. A Form for the Administration of the Lord's Supper ; to which is annexed an Answer to certain Questions, pertaining to the Elucidation of the same ; and

    2. A Morning and Evening Prayer. Both these were printed at Clausenburg, by George Abrugi, 1638, 8vo. Zeltner states, that the mode of administering the Lord's Supper, adopted in the above printed form, was similar to that, which had been practised by the Crypto-Socinians at Altorf.

    3. It is mentioned in the Synodical Acts, that Radecius contemplated the composition of a work, to be entitled, "Agendorum Ecclesiasticorum Syntagma;" but it does not appear, that he lived to complete this undertaking. Peter Morscovius afterwards wrote an elaborate treatise on the subject of Ecclesiastical Discipline, of which an account will be given in a subsequent part of the present work. Art. 238, No. 1.

     

    (Vidend. SandiiB. A. pp. 106, 107. Sock, Hist. Ant. T. I . pp. 709, 710. 950. Zettneri Hist. Crypto-Socin. Altorf. pp. 302, 303. Smalcii Diarium, A. D. 1605. 1608. 1612. Bibl. Fratr. Polon. T. I. p. 492.)

     


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