Note 1147 — Chapter III · PROTESTANTISM.

Cipriano de Valera was the author of Los dos Tratados del Papa y de la Misa, of which two editions appeared in London, in 1588 and 1599, reprinted by the pious care of Usoz y Rio, in 1851, as Volume VI of his Reformistas antiguos españoles. Of this work there have been two English translations, one by John Golburne in 1600, and the other by J. Savage in 1704. Two other tracts by Valera, Tratado para confirmar en la Fe Christiana and Aviso sobre Jubileos, are in Vol. VIII of the Reformistas. His largest work was a translation of the great Institutio of Calvin, reproduced as Vol. XIV of the Reformistas.

Cassiodoro de Reina became the head of Protestant churches, Spanish and French, in London, Antwerp and Frankfort. His chief work was the translation of the Bible into Castilian—a version passing under the name of Cipriano de Valera, who issued a revised edition. Printed in modern times by the Bible Society, it has a circulation throughout Spanish-speaking lands vastly greater than the author could have anticipated three hundred years ago.—Böhmer, op. cit., II, 165.