William Tyndale's Last Prayer

In October 1536, outside the walls of Vilvoorde Castle in Belgium, William Tyndale was led to a stake. His crime was translating the Bible into English so that, as he once told a clergyman, "the boy that driveth the plough" could know Scripture. The religious authorities of England had burned his books in public bonfires at St. Paul's Cross. Bishop Tunstall called his translation heretical.…