William Tyndale c. 1494–1536
The Underground Translator In the early 1530s, an English merchant named Stephen Vaughan was commissioned to find William Tyndale and inform him that King Henry VIII desired him to return from hiding on the...
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Thomas Becon c. 1512–1567
The Monday Morning Protestant Though almost entirely overlooked in church history, Thomas Becon was a prolific pamphleteer, popular bestseller, and godly cleric in sixteenth-century England during the Reformation. Living through the turbulent reigns of...
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Peter Martyr Vermigli 1499–1562
The Phoenix of Florence From childhood, Peter Martyr Vermigli desired to teach God’s word. At age fifteen, he entered the Augustinian order in the Italian town of Fiesole, near his native Florence. After eight years...
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Menno Simons 1496–1561
The Fearless Pacifist If you are familiar with the contemporary Mennonites, you may be surprised to learn that the group’s founder started as a Catholic priest who had never read the Bible. A Priest...
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