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Fox's Book of Martyrs

a history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the early Christian and the Protestant martyrs.

by John Foxe · 1741

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A seminal Protestant history chronicling the persecution and deaths of Christian martyrs from the early church through the 16th century, with a particular focus on the English Reformation. The work is a detailed, often graphic, account of suffering intended to inspire faith and fortitude.

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