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October 6 in History

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October 6, 1536

To Open the King of England's Eyes

In October fifteen thirty-six, the fugitive who translated the English Bible was led to a stake outside Brussels to be strangled and burned. Within three years, the very monarch who outlawed his work ordered a copy of it chained to every pulpit in the realm.

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