John Foxe Writer

John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.

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John Foxe
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1517
Birth place
England , Boston Lincolnshire , Lincolnshire
Date of deathApril 18, 1587
Place of death
England

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genre
Church history
movement
Puritan

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External resources

  1. http://www.ccel.org
  2. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/foxe/martyrs/files/martyrs.html
  3. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12099133
  4. http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/freemanessay.html
  5. http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/introessays.html
  6. http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/index.html
  7. http://www.johnfoxe.org