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On this point Prof. Schück in his valuable work on
Olavus Petri says:
"So far as known, the king failed in his attempts to
make an official historian out of the former
oppositionist. In his sermons, too, Olavus Petri appears to have
spoken his mind as fearlessly as before."
So dear to Olavus Petri were truth, liberty, and the
gospel of Christ, that he could not become the official
flatterer of Gustav Vasa. That role fell to Bishop
Peder Svart, in his chronicle, which closes with the
year 1533.
Georg Norman and his co-workers sought in vain to
reconstruct the church government arbitrarily to suit
the king. They patterned after the Church in
Germany by abolishing the episcopate and substituting
seniors, etc. With the aid of the German counselor
and his assistants, the king had better success in his
efforts to rifle the churches, to make the clergy over
into clerks in the pay of the government, to strip the
gold and silver from ecclesiastical vestments, all of
which led to the dangerous revolt of 1542—43, known
as the Dacke Feud. Even afterwards, the king
continued to pillage the property of the Church, but from
that time on he proceeded with greater caution.
Von Pyhy fell into disfavor with the king and died
in prison. Norman was deprived of the
superintendency of the Church, but remained until his death in
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