John Knox
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John Knox was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the reformer of the Church of Scotland.
Portrait of Knox from Theodore Beza's Icones
Wishart preaching against Mariolatry, with Knox at his back (far right)
Frontispiece to the Scots Gaelic translation of John Knox's Liturgy, 1567
John Knox portrait bearing the date 1572
Scottish Reformation
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The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms part of the wider European 16th-century Prote
John Knox
…John Knox (c. 1514 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the reformer of the Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgate, a street in Haddington, East Lothian, Knox is believed to have been educated at…
Henry Wardlaw (died 1440), Bishop of St Andrews, royal tutor and adviser, founder of The University of St Andrews and key figure in fighting Lollardy
A mid-16th-century oak panel carving from a house in Dundee
Portrait of Hector Boece (1465–1536), a major figure in European humanism, who returned to be the first principal of the University of Aberdeen
The Martyrs' Monument at Saint Andrews commemorates Protestants executed before the Reformation: Patrick Hamilton, Walter Milne, Henry Forrest and George Wishart.