John Foxe
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1517 – 1587
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Who was John Foxe?
John Foxe was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments, 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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- Born
- 1517
Boston - Children
- Nationality
- England
- Education
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Brasenose College, Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- Apr 18, 1587
England - Resting place
- St Giles-without-Cripplegate
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on July 23, 2013
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