Christian classics · 1563

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe (ed. W. B. Forbush). Stories of Christians who suffered and died for their faith, from the early church through the Reformation.

24 parts · about 261,498 words · ≈ 18.9 hours of reading

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Contents

  1. Preface 8 min
  2. Chapter I — History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecution Under Nero 7 min
  3. Chapter II — The Ten Primitive Persecutions 55 min
  4. Chapter III — Persecutions of the Christians in Persia 18 min
  5. Chapter IV — Papal Persecutions 36 min
  6. Chapter V — An Account of the Inquisition 80 min
  7. Chapter VI — An Account of the Persecution in Italy, Under the Papacy 100 min
  8. Chapter VII — An Account of the Persecutions in Bohemia under the Papacy. 42 min
  9. Chapter VIII — General Persecutions in Germany 21 min
  10. Chapter IX — An Account of the Persecutions in Lithuania and Poland 3 min
  11. Chapter X — An Account of the Persecutions in China and Several Other Countries 14 min
  12. Chapter XI — An Account of the Persecutions in Great Britain and Ireland Prior to the Reign of Queen Mary I 18 min
  13. Chapter XII — An Account of the Persecution in Scotland During the Reign of King Henry VIII 18 min
  14. Chapter XII — Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary 217 min
  15. Chapter XIV — The Spanish Armada 39 min
  16. Chapter XV — Rise and Progress of the Protestant Religion in Ireland; with an Account of the Barbarous Massacre of 1641 37 min
  17. Chapter XVI — The Rise, Progress, Persecutions, and Sufferings of the Quakers 29 min
  18. Chapter XVII — Persecutions of the French Protestants in the South of France, During the Years 1814 and 1820 52 min
  19. Chapter XVIII — Asaad Shidiak 116 min
  20. Chapter IX — Persecutions of the Baptist Missionaries in India, During the Year 1824 68 min
  21. Chapter XX — Persecution of the Wesleyan Missionaries in the West Indies 25 min
  22. Chapter XXI — Persecutions in Switzerland from 1813 to 1830 17 min
  23. Chapter XXII — Sketches of the Lives of Some of the Most Eminent Reformers 58 min
  24. Chapter XXIII — Sketch of the French Revolution of 1789, As Connected with the History of Persecution 70 min

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