FOXS BOOK OF MARTYRS A HISTORY OF THE LIVES, SUFFER INGS AND
TRIUMPHANT DEATHS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN AND THE PROTESTANT MARTYRS
Edited ly WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, D. D. HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO Copyright, 1926 HOLT, RlNEHART AND
WlNSTON, INC, Copyright Henewed, 1954, By HOLT, RINEHART AND
WINSTON, INC, All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce
this book or portions thereof in any form. In Canada, Holt,
Binehart and Winston of Canada, Limited. December, 1965 89469-4910
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOXS BOOK OF MARTYRS When
one recollects that until the appearance of the Pilgrims Progress
the common people had almost no other reading matter except the
Bible and Foxs Book of Martyrs, we can understand the deep
impression that this book produced and how it served to mold the
national character. Those who could read for themselves learned the
full details of all the atrocities performed on the Protes tant
reformers the illiterate could see the rude illustrations of the
various instruments of torture, the rack, the gridiron, the boiling
oil, and then the holy ones breathing out their souls amid the
flames. Take a people just awakening to a new intellectual and
religious life let several generations of them, from childhood to
old age, pore over such a book, and its stories become traditions
as individual and almost as potent as songs and customs on a
nations life DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, The Puritan in Holland, England, and
America. c If we divest the book of its accidental character of
feud between churches, it yet stands, in the first years of
Elizabeths reign, a mon ument that marks the growing strength of a
desire for spiritual freedom, defiance of those forms that seek to
stifle conscience and fetter thought HENRY MORLEY, English Writers.
After the Bible itself, no book so profoundly influenced
early-Protestant sentiment as the Book of Martyrs. Even in our own
time it is still a living force. It is more than a record of
persecution. It is an arsenal of controversy, a storehouse of
romance, as well as a source of edification. JAMES MILLER DODDS,
English Prose. CONTENTS SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR ix-xiv CHAPTER PAGE I
HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS TO THE FIRST GENERAL PERSECUTION UNDER
NERO The Glorious Company of the Apostles .... 1-II THE TEN
PRIMITIVE PERSECUTIONS Nero Burns Christians in the Imperial
Gardens Ignatius, The Wheat of Christ Polycarp Re fuses to Deny
Christ The Beheading of Justin, Martyr Christians in the Catacombs
Origen Suffers by Fire Saint Lawrences Bed of Iron Sebastian is
Pierced with Arrows 5 III PERSECUTIONS OF THE CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA
The Emperor Constantine Protests The Fury of Julian the Apostate
The Goths and Vandals The Last Roman Triumph The Noble Gothic
Prince The Sacrificing of Boniface Bishop Alphege Defends
Canterbury 33 IV PAPAL PERSECUTIONS Persecutions of the Brave
Waldenses The Pope Wars against the Albigenses The Massacres of
Saint Bartholomew Sufferings after the Revoca tion of the Edict of
Nantes Martyrdom of John Galas 43 V AN ACCOUNT OF THE INQUISITION
The Fierce Zeal of Dominic The Hounds of the Lord A Typical
Inquisitory The Cruel Handling of Nicholas Burton Some Private
Enormities of the Inquisition The Persecution of Dr. JEgidio The
Tormenting of Dr. Gardiner The Sufferings of William Lithgow The
Story of Galileo Summary of the Inquisition ... 60 CONTENTS CHAPTER
PAGE VI ANACCOUNT OF THE PERSECUTIONS IN ITALY UNDER THE PAPACY The
Courageous End of Arnold of Brescia Hounding of Calabrian Peasants
Extermina tions at St. Xist Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont
Remarkable Individuals who were Martyred The Piedmontese War
Persecutions of Michael de Molinos of the Quiet Life .....
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