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71History of Jews in Alsace — The Jewish community of Alsace is one of the oldest Jewish community in Europe, dating from the time of Herod, before the Christian era.OriginsThe language traditionally spoken by the Jews of Alsace is Judeo Alsacian, which is a mix of Yiddish,… …
72Death by burning — Part of a series on Capital punishment Issues Debate · …
73Execution by burning — has a long history as a method of punishment for crimes such as treason, heresy and witchcraft (burning, however, was actually less common than hanging, pressing, or drowning as a punishment for witchcraft). This method of execution fell into… …
74Sorginak — (radical: sorgin , sing. (nom. int.): sorgina ) are the assistants of the goddess Mari in Basque mythology. It is also the Basque name for witches or pagan priestesses (though they could also be male), being difficult to discern between the… …
75Basque witch trials — Francisco de Goya s Witches Sabbat, 1798 The Basque witch trials of the 17th century represent the most ambitious attempt at rooting out witchcraft ever undertaken by the Spanish Inquisition. The trial of the Basque witches at Logroño, near… …
76Thomas Cranmer — Cranmer redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Cranmer (surname). Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Portrait by Gerlach Flicke, 1545[ …
77Oxford Martyrs — The burning of Latimer and Ridley, from a book by John Foxe (1563). Born England Died 1555, 1556,Oxford, England …
78Marguerite Porete — Died 1 June 1310(1310 06 01) Paris, France Occupation Beguine Marguerite Porete (died 1310) was a French mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian spirituality dealing with the workings of Divine Love. She was …
79Rowland Taylor — (October 6, 1510 February 9, 1555) was an English martyr during the Marian Persecutions.He was born in Northumberland, England, and died at Hadleigh. At the time of his death he was Rector, or Anglican parish priest of a small parish in a (now)… …
80Robert Samuel — (d. Ipswich, Suffolk, 31 August 1555) was an English priest of East Bergholt in Suffolk, England who was imprisoned, tortured and burnt to death as a judicial execution under the Marian persecutions, and is commemorated as one of the Ipswich… …
