Leo Jud
Leo Jud (also Leo Juda, Leo Judä, Leo Judas, Leonis Judae, Ionnes Iuda, Leo Keller) (1482 – 19 June 1542), known to his contemporaries as Meister Leu, Swiss reformer, was born in 1482 in Guémar, Alsace, southwest of Strasbourg. Like his later colleague Heinrich Bullinger, Jud was the son of a priest. His father, Johannes Jud, was from Guémar and his mother, Elsa Hochsang, was from Solothurn. He studied at the Latin school in Sélestat with Martin Bucer and in 1499 he matriculated at the University of Basel, where he met Huldrych Zwingli. He began his studies in medicine but switched to theology under the influence of Thomas Wyttenbach. Leo Jud is one of the lesser-known leaders of the Swiss Reformed Church, but his influence was extensive.
Jud was ordained by the Church at Rome in 1507, and from 1507-1512 he was a deacon at Saint Theodore in Basel, then from 1512-1518 he served as the preacher at Saint Hippolyte in Alsace. In 1519 he became Zwingli’s associate at Einsiedeln (in Schwyz), where his reform-minded tendencies showed through clearly.
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La Jete'e
by: Troubled CoastA man and his youth
You are who you were
Men in white, whispers in the dark
You are who you were
Moscow in my ear whispering fear
Paris burns underground
Paris sleeps just underground
So tie me down
Send me away from here
When nothing makes sense but stilling memories in your head
Let me go, find a way on our own
But, just wait for me with hair-in-wind
Hands-in-teeth, for nothing else
Hey maker, I think I was meant for this
A frozen sun, a woman's face are all I have, are all I need
You were who you were then we met in the silence and peace
You're quiet, eyes are tame
So tie me down
Send me away from here
When nothing makes sense but stilling memories in your head
Let me go, find a way on our own
But, just wait for me with hair-in-wind
Hands-in-teeth, for nothing else
I can't save you
You can't save me
Take your peacetime needs, let go of me
Take your peacetime hopes and bury them
Take your peacetime love and marry her
Take your peacetime wants and tie me down
Take your peacetime life and reassess
Take your peacetime hopes and swallow hard
Take your peace time thoughts and all of your peacetime memories
And don't tell a soul
So tie me down, send me away from here
When nothing makes sense but getting way from here
Let me go, find a way on our own