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Oct 10, 2005 · Cast down by the mounting defections from Protestant ranks, the prisoners watched anxiously as the heresy trials began in January 1555 and greeted the first burning, of John Rogers at Smithfield in February, as a triumph.
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The Oxford Martyrs were Protestants tried for heresy in 1555 and burnt at the stake in Oxford, England, for their religious beliefs and teachings, during the Marian persecution in England. The three martyrs were the Church of England bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Oct 11, 2015 · In Oxford's St Giles there is a huge Victorian memorial to the Oxford Martyrs, close to the spot where they were burned at the stake. Today marks 460 years since the deaths of two of them, Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, in 1555.
Hugh Latimer (c. 1487 – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the stake, becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.
The Martyrs Cross marks the traditional place where three Protestant bishops, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer, and Thomas Cranmer, were burned at the stake under Queen Mary for refusing to renounce their Protestant faith.
Bishops Latimer and Ridley were burned at the stake in October 1555. In March 1556, Archbishop Cranmer was burned after he recanted his Protestant faith and returned to Catholicism, and then renounced his recantation. The location where the Martyrs were burned outside the city’s North Gate is marked by a cross in the road on Broad Street.
Finally, at Oxford, on October 16, 1555, Latimer was burned alive along with Bishop Ridley (perhaps the ablest scholar of that time). They were chained to the stake. When the fire was lit, Latimer said to Ridley, “Be of good comfort, Brother Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light a candle by God’s grace, in England as I trust ...
