Foxe's Book of Martyrs Published
1563
The English exile John Foxe published his enormous Acts and Monuments, cataloguing the sufferings of Protestant martyrs from Wycliffe to the victims of Queen Mary. It became the best-selling book of Elizabethan England after the Bible and shaped English anti-Catholic sentiment for three centuries. Its woodcut illustrations of Protestants being burned alive shaped English anti-Catholic sentiment for three centuries.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.