Michael became a monk, a vow of celibacy, and fully wanted to live for God.  Sounds great, but very few has God called to that rare path!  He wrestled with this for a long while until he gave in and m...  Read More

Felix Manz was a son of a priest, his mother unmarried, but brought up educated to be a free thinker.  As ironic as fate may be, his mentor Ulrich Zwingli would ultimately be the person who would try ...  Read More

The Anabaptists were a movement of believers in our LORD Jesus Christ who simply rejected the Catholic churches practices of infant baptisms as illegitimate.  Their name means "rebaptizer" yet they we...  Read More

Here, we have another honor to a group of Christians killed for their faith in Jesus Christ together on a hill in Nagasaki Japan.  The Jesuits arrived in Japan in 1549 led by the great missionary St. ...  Read More

Wishart was a Scottish preacher of the gospel of Christ.  While in college, he was "infected" by the Reformation movement.  He chose the hard difficult path against  the establishment religious corrup...  Read More

William Tyndale was a well educated scholar who was frustrated by the large gap between education of the Bible for all men because of the Latin only translation.  John Wycliffe had 90 years previous, ...  Read More

All we need to be set ablaze is one spark from the Holy Spirit.  One event can totally project us in a direction for good or bad.  For Henry, is Scottish countryman Patrick Hamilton helped in that spa...  Read More

Patricks court sentence was a huge shocker and a first for its kind.  He was of royal stock, a Scottish man related to Stuart King James V.  He was well educated and everyone knew he was going to do g...  Read More

These brave Christians were the 1st to die as Protestants.  They were Augustinian monks, same as Martin Luther, who took to Luthers new found faith & freedoms. They would be the 1st to be killed for s...  Read More

We now are coming well out of the dark ages of the church and into the Reformation.  The days of renaissance.  Nobody played a bigger hand than Martin Luther, a German monk who later became a theologi...  Read More

Many of the churches greatest inspirational figures were quiet, introverts who really didn't care for attention.  Its as though, God gives them supernatural courage to do what us extroverts march towa...  Read More

Oldcastle was a friend of the king.  He served in the armies of the English King Henry IV, was a ladies man as was the king, and fought with swords.  He would come under the influence of a greater Kin...  Read More