Curated category
People executed for heresy
- Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer entered the world on the 2nd of July 1489 at Aslockton in Nottinghamshire, England. He was a younger son of Thomas Cranmer and his wife Agnes…
- SocratesSocrates did not write a single line of text. All knowledge about him comes from the posthumous accounts of others, primarily his students Plato and…
- Joan of ArcIn the small village of Domrémy, nestled in the Meuse valley of northeast France, a peasant girl named Joan was born around 1412.
- Girolamo SavonarolaGirolamo Savonarola was born on the 21st of September 1452 in Ferrara to Niccolò di Michele and Elena. His grandfather, Michele Savonarola, was a noted…
- William TyndaleWilliam Tyndale stood before a dinner party in the early 1520s and declared that if God spared his life, he would ensure the boy who drove the plow knew more…