Hugh Latimer (born towards 1485/90, dead on October 16th 1555) is an English theologist and one of the great figures of the Martyrologe Protesting.
In 1510, it is elected fellow (member) of Clare College with Cambridge and in 1522 it is named priest at the university. It is pointed out for its doctrines reformist, in particular by the authorities which start to supervise it. Under the reign of Henri VIII it makes two stays in prison in the tower of London in 1539 and 1546.
Under the reign of the son of Henri VIII, ÉdouardVI, it returns in grace while the church of England engages in the Protestant reform. But when the very catholic Marie Tudor succeeds her Edouard brother, it is stopped and judged because of the convictions that it defended with Oxford then thrown in prison. In October 1555, it is burned alive in front of the college of Balliol.
Latimer is carried out in company of Nicholas Ridley. John Foxe reports that he would have said to this one:
Be off good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such has candle, by God' S grace, in England, ace I trust shall never Be could out.
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