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Although the so-called "Marian Persecutions" began with four clergymen, relics of Edwardian England's Protestantism, [2]: 196 Foxe's Book of Martyrs offers an account of the executions, which extended well beyond the anticipated targets – high-level clergy. Tradesmen were also burned, as well as married men and women, sometimes in unison ...
Dirk Willems etching from Martyrs Mirror "Death of Cranmer", from the 1887 Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, 1523, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyrs; Jan de Bakker, 1525, burned at the stake; Martyrs of Tlaxcala, 1527-1529; Felix Manz, 1527; Patrick Hamilton, 1528, burned at the stake, early Lutheran martyr ...
This category lists Christian martyrs who were killed for their Protestant witness or beliefs from the Reformation era to the present day. This category is one of a group that makes a hierarchy of sub-categories according to the main branches of Christianity within historical eras.
The Actes and Monuments (full title: Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, Touching Matters of the Church), popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is a work of Protestant history and martyrology by Protestant English historian John Foxe, first published in 1563 by John Day.
George Marsh memorial at St. Mary the Virgin's church in Deane. George Marsh (1515 – 24 April 1555) was an English Protestant martyr who died in Boughton, Chester, on 24 April 1555 as a result of the Marian Persecutions carried out against Protestant Reformers and other dissenters during the reign of Mary I of England.
His parents were Meredydd (Meredith) Penry and Eleanor (nee Godley). He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in December 1580, [2] being then probably a Roman Catholic, but soon became a Protestant, with strong Puritan tendencies. Having graduated B.A., he moved to St Alban Hall, Oxford, and gained his M.A. in July 1586. He did not seek ...
Four Crowned Martyrs: nine people venerated as martyrs and saints by the Catholic Church. Korean Martyrs: 8,000–10,000 Catholics were killed during the 19th century in Korea, 103 of whom have been canonized. List of Protestant martyrs of the Scottish Reformation: men and women executed under heresy laws during the Scottish Reformation.
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