Wycliffe Bible
JOHN WYCLIFFE trained “poor preachers” who lived a simple life and traveled around the countryside teaching the Word of God to the common folk of England in their own tongue.
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John Wycliffe was responsible for the very first translation of the entire Bible into the English language. He is called “the father of English prose” because the clarity and the popularity of his writings and his sermons in the Middle English dialect did much to shape our language today.
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One Pope issued five bulls against John Wycliffe for heresy, the Catholic Church in England tried him three times, and two Popes summoned him to Rome, but he was never imprisoned nor ever went to Rome.
https://www.christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/john-wycliffe-did-you-know/
Even though John Wycliffe died peacefully at home in bed on New Year’s Eve, the Church exhumed his body 44 years later, burned his bones, and scattered the ashes in a nearby river.
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At the Diet of Worms in 1521, Martin Luther was accused of renewing the errors of Wycliffe and Hus by making the Scriptures his final authority.
