Woodcut from the first edition of John Foxe 'The Book of Martyrs', London 1563, depicting iconoclasm, centre top. In the top part of the image 'papists' are packing away their 'paltry,' while the church is purged of idols. At bottom left clerics receive the Bible from Queen Elizabeth I. Bottom right shows the interior of a Protestant church with the congregation listening to a sermon, a somple Communion table rther than an altar, and a Baptism taking place.
Woodcut from the first edition of John Foxe 'The Book of Martyrs', London 1563, depicting iconoclasm, centre top. In the top part of the image 'papists' are packing away their 'paltry,' while the church is purged of idols. At bottom left clerics receive the Bible from Queen Elizabeth I. Bottom right shows the interior of a Protestant church with the congregation listening to a sermon, a somple Communion table rther than an altar, and a Baptism taking place.
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