BIO:William Tyndale 1494-1536 Bible translator and reformer. William

Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek
diligently at Ox- ford and Cambridge Universities, specifically the
Textus Receptus. He conferred with Luther in Germany, and stayed on the
Continent, translating the Bible from Greek into English and smuggling
New Testaments into England. Tyndale, who was betrayed by a friend and
arrested in Brussels, Belgium, was found guilty of treason and heresy
against the Church. He was strangled in the courtyard of the prison and
then burned at the stake.

   ARTIST'S NOTE: A gloom hangs over the entire face, with the obvious
termination in the background on the right--martyrdom at the stake.

   Ruckman '66
