![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I know surely that my soul shall sup with my Saviour Christ this night.” -George Wishart, in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Consider and behold my visage, ye shall not see me change my colour. For this cause I was sent, that I should suffer this fire, for Christ’s sake. Notable Quote: “I suffer this day by men, not sorrowfully, but with a glad heart and mind.Biographies Included: John Wickliffe, Sir John Oldcastle, Jan Hus, William Tyndale, Martin Luther, John Hooper, Rowland Taylor, Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart, Hugh Latimer, Bishop Ridley, Thomas Cranmer, and many more.Subject: History of Protestantism Christian Martyrology.Originally Published: March 20, 1563, in England, UK Foxe's Book of Martyrs John Foxe, William Grinton Berry (Editor) 4.25 18,726 ratings456 reviews Reformation-era EnglandJohn Foxe recounts the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of dozens of Christian martyrs.Original Title: Acts and Monuments of Matters Happening to the Church.The book’s author, John Foxe, was a Protestant educator in 16th-century England who took a keen interest in church history and particularly the martyrs of the Reformation. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs is a Christian classic recounting the lives of persecuted believers from the earliest days of the church until the time of the Protestant Reformation. The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxes Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day. ![]()
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