Give me Scotland where I die.

John Knox.

Founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

John Knox was a pastor, writer, and reformed theologian who led the way for the Reformation in 16th century Scotland.

But it wasn't easy.

His life would be one full of exile, prison, and other trials.

Educated at the University of St Andrews, Knox became deeply

involved in the movement to reform the Scottish Church. Rising to great authority

in the Church of England he was pivotal in reforming the text of the Book of Common Prayer within the Church of England.

But when Mary the first, Bloody Mary, ascended to the throne of England and promptly re-established

the Catholic faith in the land, Knox was compelled to resign from his position

of leadership and even flee the country.

For a time he lived in Geneva, where he learned more about the reformed theology and Presbyterian polity of John Calvin.

Out of this experience in Calvin's Geneva, Knox would go on to write the liturgical forms ultimately adopted by the reform church in Scotland.

From Geneva, Knox moved through Frankfurt,

but ultimately couldn't resist the pole of his beloved Scotland,

to which he ultimately returned,

though his return was not entirely peaceful.

The Protestant Reformation he led in Scotland was seen as revolutionary, and Knox was certainly

not a win some newancer.

One of his publications, an attack on the rule of women in the

civil sphere, was entitled The First Blast of the Trumpet against the

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