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A Woodcut from
John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments of These Latter and Perilous Days, 1563
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A Protestant who fled to Germany in 1554 to escape Mary's persecution, Foxe wrote a history of the martyrs of the Church since Christ that prominently featured the men and women burnt by Mary's regime. Popularly known as the "Book of Martyrs," it was placed in every cathedral church by order of Elizabeth's bishops and became the most widely read book of its time.
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