John Foxe

John Foxe was a ecclésiaste and British theologist born in 1516, with Boston (Lincolnshire) and dead the April 8th 1587.

For its interest for the doctrines incipient from Martin Luther, it was rejected by the Church Anglican which made of him a Martyr. It was then forced to withdraw itself in the Swiss city of Basle, where he became corrector of printing works.

He returned in his fatherland only after the death of the queen Marie Ire of England. The Duc of Norfolk, that Fox had raised, became his guard and a Prébende got to him. However it was always rejected by the Église Anglican.

Its most famous writings are:

Acts and monuments of the Church (London, 1563, 1634 and 1850) which tells the history of all the sects (in the direction of religious minority) which fought the ideas of the Roman Catholic church since the 10th century. This book is called by the Catholique S the Légende gilded of Fox . One finds there also his biography written by his son, Samuel Fox.
the Book of the martyrs .

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