Talk:Oxford Martyrs

Saints banner and category
Based on this individual being included in the Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church in the United States of America), I am adding the Category:Anglican saints and the Saints WikiProject banner to this article. I am awaiting reliable sources which can be used to add the content to the article. John Carter 19:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Why
What were the dissenting views for which they were burned? Drutt 09:43, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Last words?
Isn't one of them attributed with some famous last words, something like ". 'Play the man, Mister Ridley... We shall this day light such a candle in England, as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out!"? --Hugh7 (talk) 06:09, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Memorials
Squares near the centre of Christchurch, New Zealand are named Latimer Square and Cranmer Square. Is that worth adding to the page? --Hugh7 (talk) 06:23, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
 * And Cathedral Square, Christchurch was originally going to be named Ridley Square. 121.73.216.35 (talk) 21:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge
Merge with Martyrs' Memorial -- Secisek (talk) 06:56, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

more detail please
This article is lacking much necessary background. What had they been preaching? Why was it considered heresy, and by whom? Who was instrumental in bringing them to trial? etc. No name is good name (talk) 14:14, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Who had them burnt? Was it just an act of God?
Who exactly had them burnt? Wasn't it Henry VIII, the so-called initiator of the English Reformation or whatever it is that it should really be called? Normally, when you are dissenting as the intellectual dissenters for rational reasons, the person who requests your "rationalization" for that purpose does not burn you alive... So, regardless of the myths that have been created subsequent to the murders of these men, the English Reformation could not have for the same reasoning given for the other Protestant rebellions - although the similarity of pursuing mating decisions beyond the authority of the Church (which at the initial period was Catholic), may be the common thread for all of the "reform" or "Protestant" movements, alongside the consequences of book publishing and the expanded access to religion presented in the indigenous vernacular... It becomes more an issue of "home rule", then religiosity doesn't it? Suzerainty and all of that? Stevenmitchell (talk) 09:36, 19 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not quite sure what point Stevenmitchell is making, but it was one of Henry VIII's successors, Mary Tudor, who had them burnt. Unlike Henry VIII, she was of course a (Roman) Catholic, and Mary required the Pope's permission to execute Cranmer, then the Archbishop of Canterbury. Cranmer had to be deprived of his archbishopric before sentence could be carried out. It would be worthwhile reading the article on Thomas Cranmer for a bit more background.Thomas Peardew (talk) 18:30, 20 April 2014 (UTC)

If this article remains
...with half of its citations and a quarter of its text assigned a supposed legacy in nursery rhymes—then certainly, merge it, delete it, do anything with it, to remove the embarrassment of its mediocrity, its utter nonsense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.239.87.100 (talk) 11:03, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Do you mean the whole article, or a section of it? If you're talking about the whole article, then I disagree, don't like to do so, but no, there needs to be a Wikipedia article on this subject.  Even though, apparently, the experts on the subject haven't taken any time to stop by and fix the article (perhaps they don't edit Wikipedia).  Hopefully someday someone will go to the library and dig up good references and give this subject the article it deserves, but until that day comes, this article, IMO, will suffice.Cellodont (talk) 19:03, 19 March 2020 (UTC)