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Comenius’ life was marked by a series of particularly difficult afflictions, which significantly shaped both his theology and pedagogy. At the age of twelve (in 1604), Comenius lost his parents and two sisters, probably from the plague, and had to live with one of his other sisters and her family. As a thirteen-year-old boy Comenius experienced the destructiveness of war – as a consequence of the religious confli