Tag: Great Cloud of Witnesses

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 8)

    ROBERT BARNS On his graduation from the University of Louvain, Robert Barns was made prior and master of Augstines at Cambridge. At that time little literature was taught at Cambridge, but Barnes introduced its study and produced many educated young men who were familiar with the works of Terence, Plautus, Cicero, and others. Once literature…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 6)

    A GODLY WOMAN Of all the people who suffered for Christ and His truth, I know of none so admirable as the godly woman put to death in Chipping Sodbury about this time. Her constancy was glorious to behold, especially when contrasted with the character of the chancellor who condemned her, one Dr. Whittenham. When…

  • Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 5)

    JOHN HUSS Richard II had married a native of Bohemia, and through her servants, the works of Wycliffe were carried to that country, where they were effectively preached to the people by John Huss of Prague. Pope John XXIII, seeking to suppress the Bohemians, appointed Cardinal de Columna to look into Huss’s preaching and deal…