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Plaque in Maidstone, Kent, commemorating those burnt nearby. Protestants were executed in England under heresy laws during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558), and in smaller numbers during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625). Most were executed in the short ...
Signature. Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as " Bloody Mary " by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She is best known for her vigorous attempt ...
John Foxe (1516 [1] /1517 – 18 April 1587) [2] was an English clergyman, [3] theologian, and historian, notable for his martyrology Actes and Monuments (otherwise Foxe's Book of Martyrs), telling of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but particularly the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century and in the reign of Mary I.
The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe during the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. [1][2] Fought after the Protestant Reformation began in 1517, the wars disrupted the religious and political order in the Catholic countries of Europe, or Christendom. Other motives during the wars involved revolt, territorial ...
Karl Barth. Karl Barth (1886–1968), a Reformed Protestant, was a leading 20th century theologian. Aware of the common dogmatic tradition of the early Church, Barth fully accepted the dogma of Mary as the Mother of God. [citation needed] In his view, through Mary, Jesus belongs to the human race; through Jesus, Mary is Mother of God.
The Three Marys (also spelled Maries) are women mentioned in the canonical gospels ' narratives of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. [1][2] Mary was the most common name for Jewish women of the period. Saint Anne and her daughters, the Three Marys, Jean Fouquet. The Gospels refer to several women named Mary.
Mary Jane Fonder (July 5, 1942 [1] – June 4, 2018 [2]) was an American criminal who murdered Rhonda Smith, a fellow congregant, inside their church in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 2008. Fonder had also been the prime suspect in the possible homicide of her father, Edward Fonder III, who disappeared in 1993.
The Marian exiles were English Protestants who fled to continental Europe during the 1553–1558 reign of the Catholic monarchs Queen Mary I and King Philip. [1][2][3] They settled chiefly in Protestant countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany, and also in France, [citation needed] Italy [citation needed] and Poland. [citation ...