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  • This Week in Church History: Latimer and Ridley Burned (1555)

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    This Week in Church History: Latimer and Ridley Burned (1555)

    October 16 marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley by Queen Mary of England. Together with the Archbishop of Canterbury and author of the Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer, these three men make up the Oxford Martyrs. All three died by burning in Oxford, thus the term “Oxford Martyr,”…

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