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Foxe's Book of Martyrs is the popular title of John Foxe's The Actes and Monuments. It is a polemical work of Protestant history and martyrology, first published in English in 1563 by John Day. It presents an overview of the history of Christian persecutions, beginning with the early Christians, through the Middle Ages, with praise for the Albigensians and the Waldensians, and includes a polemical account of the sufferings of Protestants under the Catholic Church, with particular emphasis on England and Scotland. The book was highly influential in those countries and helped shape lasting popular notions of Catholicism there, especially the claim that the Catholic Church was founded by the Devil, resists the truth of God, opposes the Bible, and teaches pagan doctrines of devils from the pit of hell. The book went through four editions in Foxe's lifetime and a number of later editions and abridgements, including some that specifically reduced the text to an abbreviated Book of Martyrs.
See also
Persecution
Heresy
Propaganda
''The Two Babylons''