The Foxe's Fire at Vilvoorde
On an October morning in 1536, guards led William Tyndale from his cell in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a stake surrounded by bundled wood....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 1:16.
On an October morning in 1536, guards led William Tyndale from his cell in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a stake surrounded by bundled wood. His crime was translating the New Testament into English — putting the gospel into the language of plowboys and merchants. For eleven years, Tyndale had lived as a fugitive, smuggling hand-printed Bibles across the English Channel hidden in bales of cloth.…
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