BurningTruth

[Hitch]

THERE are certain facts in history which the world tries hard to forget and ignore. These facts get in the way of some of the world’s favourite theories, and are highly inconvenient. The consequence is that the world shuts its eyes against them. They are either cut dead as vulgar intruders, or passed by as tiresome bores. Little by little they sink out of sight of the students of history, like ships in a distant horizon, or are left behind like a luggage train in a siding. Of such facts the subject of this paper is a vivid example:—“The Burning of our English Reformers; and the Reason why they were Burned.”









http://www.the-highway.com/reformers-burned_Ryle.html

 

[reba]

And i whine about nothing.....
A stronger view of the Bread of life and fruit of the True vine

 

[AirDancer]

The article was excellent in presenting the facts as recorded in the day of Mary's reign... but it doesn't tell the entire story.

It was estimated that close to an equal number of others were hung until dead. A few of those hung included members of the guards who refused to be a part of the burnings of women and children. Two of note refused to throw a newborn into the fires when the babe's mother was chained to the post to burn. (The baby was birthed in a cart in which the mother was being transported to the post.)

If Mary had had her way, her younger sister Elizabeth would have burned as well.