459 Years ago........
Latimer & Ridley were burned at the stake by the Catholic powers of England.
A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.
Latimer said,
I saw under the altar
Latimer & Ridley were burned at the stake by the Catholic powers of England.
A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.
Latimer said,
‘Be of good comfort,
Master Ridley, and play the man;
we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England as shall never be put out’
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| The cross marks the spot where Latimer & Ridley were burned |
I saw under the altar
the souls of them that were slain for the word of God,
and for the testimony which they held:
And they cried with a loud voice, saying,
How long,
O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Revelation 6:9,10
