Anybody recognize this photo?

If you have been to Oxford, England, or if you are an Uber history nerd, you recognize

this as martyrs cross.

Remember years ago I was in Oxford for a day and I was walking down Broad Street and I just

about tripped over this and I thought, what in the world is this really ancient looking

cross in the middle of the road and I had to Google it?

Well it turns out martyrs cross is the name of it and it marks the spot where in 1555, three

of the top leaders in the Church of England, Hugh Latmer who is the Bishop of Worcester, Thomas

Krainmer who is the Archbishop of London and Thomas Krainmer who was the Archbishop of

Cantorbury itself were all burned at the stake right there by Queen Mary or as she's

come to be called Bloody Mary at the very beginning of the English Reformation all because

they refused to recant their heretical teachings which were actually Orthodox teachings they

got from reading the Bible.

They were willing to suffer acute pain and to die for what the Scripture had to say because

of the life's work and death of another martyr just a few decades before by the name of William

Tindale. I guess he most of you recognize that name if you don't know his story.

Tindale was a linguist and a professor at Cambridge University without a doubt one of the great

minds not only of his time but of Western civilization in general. He was a linguist and so

he became fluent in both Greek and Hebrew and after reading the Bible in its original

original languages which was very rare even for a priest most priest at that time could not even

identify where the ten commandments were in the Bible or where the Lord's Prayer was most of them

had never read it because it was actually illegal at some level. After reading he came to two

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