Adoniram Judson | The Torchlighter
It was June 8, 1824, for Adoniram Judson in a simple house in Ava, the golden city of Burma (the country's current name is Burma, or the Union of Myanmar.…
William Carey | Who Was This British Missionary?
In William Carey early childhood years, we find William as a great lover of birds. And animals with whom he often socialized. So great was his concern in this regard…
David Livingstone | Missionary, Navigator and Friend of the World
David Livingstone was born in 1813 into a low-income family. And worked as a child in a cotton mill but attended evening classes and became a doctor. In 1840 he…
John Calvin | The Evil and the Human Imagination
Guillaume Farel persuaded John Calvin to accompany him to Geneva to reform the city. Initially, the city magistrates rejected the reformers' presence. However, in 1541 Calvin managed to win their…
Henry VIII | The King of England with six wives
The two best-known facts about Henry VIII are that he had six wives, two of whom he executed, and that he separated the Church of England from the papacy. While…
Who was Johannes Gutenberg? | The Greatest Inventor
The origin of Johannes Gutenberg early presses is still being determined, with several authors considering his initial presses to be adaptations of existing fixed presses in Europe. Combined with movable…
Michelangelo Buonarroti | Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Born on 6 March 1475, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was the third of five brothers. Michelangelo Buonarroti was, along with Leonardo da Vinci, one of the world's most important artists. …
Who was Zwingli? | Theology of Huldrych Zwingli
Born in 1484 into the family of the local chief magistrate in a small alpine village called Wildhaus, Zwingli attended university in Vienna and Basel, then served as a priest…
Who was Jan Hus? | History of The Hussite Religion
On 6 July 1415, the Czech reform theologian Jan Hus declared a heretic. A hundred years before, Martin Luther had planted the seeds of the Protestant Reformation. The national hero…
Martin Luther. How Martin Luther Changed the World?
Martin Luther installed on the door of the Catholic church in Wittenberg a panel with 95 theses against the Catholic teaching on forgiveness of sins and indulgences, thus beginning the…
