As we start 2016, Joy Horn has been discovering some significant anniversaries in Christian history for en
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In AD 66, after years of frustration under Roman rule, the Jewish Revolt broke out in Jerusalem against the occupiers. The desperate and bloody strife culminated in the sack of Jerusalem four years later by Titus, son of the Emperor Vespasian.
John Philpot, a Protestant martyr in 1555, was born at Compton, Hampshire, in 1516. He went to Winchester College and New College Oxford, and eventually became archdeacon of Winchester. Imprisoned in the reign of Queen Mary I, he defended his beliefs in no fewer than 13 examinations, and when told he would be burned the next day said: ‘I am ready. God grant me strength and a joyful resurrection.’
