Christian heroes and martyrs . put on board of a Hamburg trader, and hiswife and children soon came and joined him; but he was obliged tosubmit to the loss of all his property, which had been seized uponby the Inquisition. This story of Isaac Martins sufferings was first published by theorder of the archbishops of Canterbury and York, the bishop ofLondon, and others. A Spanish Prisoner of the Inquisition. A Spaniard named Juliano travelled into Germany, and there be-came a convert to the reformed religion. When he went back toSpain he took with him to Seville a number of Bibles, to distributea
Christian heroes and martyrs . put on board of a Hamburg trader, and hiswife and children soon came and joined him; but he was obliged tosubmit to the loss of all his property, which had been seized uponby the Inquisition. This story of Isaac Martins sufferings was first published by theorder of the archbishops of Canterbury and York, the bishop ofLondon, and others. A Spanish Prisoner of the Inquisition. A Spaniard named Juliano travelled into Germany, and there be-came a convert to the reformed religion. When he went back toSpain he took with him to Seville a number of Bibles, to distributeamong the people of his own country, so that they might have thesame advantages he had enjoyed. He succeeded in this dangerousenterprise so far as getting the books into the hands of a great num-ber of people, but a pretended friend who had received a Bible, be-trayed the giver to the Inquisition. Juliano was immediately seized and put to the most cruel torturesto make him confess the names of all to whom he had given the hated. STRANGLED IN A SPANISH PRISON. 252 THE WORLDS CHRISTIAN MARTYRS. books. Ingenuity was exhausted in finding torments sufficiently severeto punish this native-born Spaniard who had dared to sow the seedsof heresy in the very stronghold and citadel of the ancient or not he yielded to the inquisitors, and told the names ofpersons implicated is not known, but no less than eight hundred per-sons were arrested as being partakers in the great crime of havingthemselves accepted, or having knowledge of others being in pos-session of—the Bible. Juliano was finally burned at the stake, withtwenty others. The rest were either imprisoned for life, sent to thegalleys, or publicly whipped and banished from the kingdom. Another Spaniard, named Juan Leon, who went to Germany toescape the dark superstitions which hung like a pall over his nativeland, joined a party of English people, intending to sail with themfor England. But information had been lodged a
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