. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). th his good friend Thomas Poyntz atAntwerp Tindale was trapped and incarcerated inthe Castle of Vilvorde near Brussels. Specialcommissioners were appointed to conduct his trialon a charge of heresy. Notwithstanding the effortsof friends in England and the Low Countries to savehis life, he was condemned to death. On October6, 1536, he was led from the cold, dark and lonelyprison, was strangled at the stake, and his
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). th his good friend Thomas Poyntz atAntwerp Tindale was trapped and incarcerated inthe Castle of Vilvorde near Brussels. Specialcommissioners were appointed to conduct his trialon a charge of heresy. Notwithstanding the effortsof friends in England and the Low Countries to savehis life, he was condemned to death. On October6, 1536, he was led from the cold, dark and lonelyprison, was strangled at the stake, and his bodyburnt to ashes. His last prayer displayed unshakenfaith in God, unfaltering loyalty to his earthlysovereign— Lord ! Open the King of Englandseyes, It is for Biblical critics to estimate and expressthe value of Tindales services as a scholar and atranslator. No one who looks at his unselfish lifeand his magnificent devotion to his life-purpose willfind it possible not to admire and reverence whatJohn Foxe fitly styles the worthy virtues and doingsof this blessed martyr, who, for his painful travailsand singular zeal to his country, may be called anApostle of England. 32. John Huss (Joannes Hussus) JOHN HUSS, the Reformer and proto-martyrof Bohemia, was born on July 6, graduating he became a lecturerin his Alma Mater, the University ofPrague, and subsequently was appointedPresident of the Theological Faculty. A year laterhe was ordained to preach at a chapel founded andendowed under the name of Bethlehem, or theHouse of Bread, intended, in the words of thefounder, for the use of the common people, thatthey might be refreshed with the bread of holypreaching. By taking the side of the Realists in the thenburning controversy between Nominalism andRealism ; by obtaining a decree which deprivedthe German nation of preponderance in the Bohe-mian University ; by the part he took in the Papal 2>Z D Bezas Portraits of Reformers schism then agitating Christendom ; and,
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