Today in 1557 we go back to the Marian martyrs as the remains of two reformers – Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius – were exhumed and burned after having been posthumously found guilty of heresy. Can you get over that? Their remains were burned, along with their books, in Cambridge. Then the graveyards where they had been buried before had to be reconsecrated to fully flush out the evil of their remains having been there, a sermon was preached against them, and there was a parade of the Blessed Sacrament through the streets.
Cambridge, which had been a hotbed of Reformation politics, needed to be cleansed.
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. Remember you can dive deeper into life in 16th-century England through the Renaissance English History Podcast at englandcast.com.
Suggested links:
Episode 087: The Medieval English church pre-1520
October is Reformation Month!
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  one of the longest running indie history podcasts, going since 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. She writes books, created the original Tudor Planner (a yearly diary filled with Tudor history) and in 2019 created the world's first Tudorcon (you can "attend" online this year!). She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 20 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history.