#MemorialMonday @Oxford where #MarianMartyrs Anglican Bishops #HughLatimer & #NicholasRidley & #ThomasCranmer #ArchbishopCanterbury were burnt at stake

#OTD
9th July 1553
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London incensed his congregation at St Paul’s Cross when he denounced Mary & Elizabeth Tudor as bastards.

#NicholasRidley #BishopofLondon #StPaulsCross #London #MaryTudor #ElizabethTudor #Tudors #History

#OTD
9th July 1553
Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London incensed his congregation at St Paul’s Cross when he denounced Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, the sisters of King Edward VI as bastards.

#NicholasRidley #BishopofLondon #StPaulsCross #London #Tudors #History

Today is the Feast Day of Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer on the Episcopal Church Calendar. As a side note, the Church of England only has a Feast Day for Thomas Cranmer on March 21.

#saints #martyrs #thomascranmer #hughlatimer #NicholasRidley

#OTD
16th October 1555
Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, were burned at the stake in Oxford for heresy.

#HughLatimer #BishopofWorcester #NicholasRidley #BishopofLondon #OxfordMartyrs #QueenMaryI #Tudors #History