Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
About John Foxe
John Foxewas an English clergyman, theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments (otherwise Foxe’s Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I. The book was widely owned and read by English Puritans and helped to mould British opinion on the Catholic Church for several centuries.
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Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.
16th-century English historian
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
16th-century English historian
Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!
16th-century English historian
A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.
16th-century English historian
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
16th-century English historian
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
16th-century English historian
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.
16th-century English historian
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people’s minds and properties.
16th-century English historian