John Foxe

John Foxe

Collected the vivid reports of the martyrdoms under Queen Mary in his Book of Martyrs (1571) and incited the English people to a longstanding horror of Catholicism. He succeeded in giving Mary the name by which history still remembers her, "Bloody Mary."

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