"The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons."

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Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers

John Foxe

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