John Foxe

John Foxe (1516/1517–1587) was an English historian, theologian, and writer whose enduring work shaped the religious and historical consciousness of Protestant England. Best known for Actes and Monuments, popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, he devoted his life to documenting the lives, faith, and sufferings of Christian martyrs. His writings became some of the most widely read religious works in the English-sp...