On this day in Tudor history, the remains of reformers Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius were exhumed and publicly burned in Cambridge, after the men were posthumously found guilty of heresy. I tell you more in this video:
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6 February – Burning the Dead
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6 February 1557 – The burnings of the remains of Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius
On this day in history, Saturday 6th February 1557, in the reign of Queen Mary I, the remains of reformers Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius were exhumed and publicly burned after the two men were posthumously found guilty of heresy.
Paul Fagius had died of plague in 1549 and had been laid to rest in St Michael’s Church, Cambridge, and Martin Bucer had died of tuberculosis in 1551 and had been laid to rest in the Church of Great St Mary’s in Cambridge.
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