biography
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| lived:
| (1503–28)
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| biography:
| Protomartyr of the Scottish Reformation, born in the diocese of Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Paris, Louvain, and St Andrews. Attracted to Lutheranism, he went to Wittenberg in 1527, where he met Luther and Melanchthon, and settled for some months in Marburg, writing (in Latin) a series of theological propositions known as ‘Patrick's Places’. Returning to Scotland he was summoned to St Andrews by Archbishop James Beaton, and on a renewed charge of heresy was burned before St Salvator's College. His death did more to extend the Reformation in Scotland than ever his life could have done. |
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