On this episode of five minutes in church history we are returning to the reformation and talking about a reformer that you might have never heard of before Martin Micronius.

He was born in 1523 in Ghent and Flanders.

When I hear the word Ghent or the place Ghent,

always think of the Ghent altar piece,

that beautiful painting.

So Martin Mycronius is Dutch. It appears that he was a

medical doctor and studied medicine and there's even testimony that he published

medical works, but then he got intrigued by the reformation and became a reformer.

He studied at Basel and at Strasbourg. And then in 1549 he went to London.

There in London he became associated with John Alaska.

This was the Polish reformer who also ended up in London.

And he and Martin Micronius and a few others were intent on

establishing a little Geneva in London. This would be a place for European

reformers to be in London.

They were not Lutherans. They were not Anglicans. They were reformed and they were trying to carve out a place for themselves.

Well, he and Lasko published a few works

to help for the liturgy,

and in the work by Martin Mycronius,

this was published in London in 1554. He says this on the Ministry of the Word.

No churchly gathering is ever held among us in which the church is not taught to some

extent from God's word in order for it to be edified,

admonished, and comforted, and for very good reasons. The scriptures are not expounded

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