In Strasbourg, France, he published his partly completed martyrology in Latin as Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum (1554 “Commentaries on Affairs Within the Church”). He also began his account of martyrs but had carried it no further than 1500 when the accession of the Roman Catholic queen Mary I in 1553 forced him to flee overseas. Foxe worked for the Reformation, writing several tracts. He was ordained a deacon of the Church of England. He resigned and in 1547 moved to London, where he became tutor to the grandchildren of the duke of Norfolk. It dealt chiefly, however, with the martyrdom of English Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Queen Mary I in Foxe’s own time.Īfter studying at the University of Oxford and holding a fellowship for seven years, Foxe fell under suspicion of harbouring Protestant views more extreme than the authorities of his college would allow. The feeling of the English populace against Spain, important in the politics of the age, was fanned by the book’s description of the Inquisition. Widely read, often the most valued book beside the Bible in the households of English Puritans, it helped shape popular opinion about Roman Catholicism for at least a century. John Foxe, (born 1516, Boston, Lincolnshire, Eng.-died April 18, 1587, Cripplegate, London), English Puritan preacher and author of The Book of Martyrs, a graphic and polemic account of those who suffered for the cause of Protestantism.

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Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe