| rdfs:comment | - John Knox (c. 1510 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549.
- John Knox (ca. 1513 - 1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who was the leading figure in reforming the Church in Scotland in Presbyterianism. He died in Edinburgh on November 24, 1572. John Knox was ordained in the Catholic Church sometime between 1530 and 1540. He first publicly professed the Protestant faith in 1545. The immediate instrument of his actual conversion was probably George Wishart, who, after a period of banishment, returned to his native country in 1544, to perish, within two years, at the stake, as the last and most illustrious of the victims of Cardinal Beaton.
- John Knox was the truly scary combination of muscle and brains, a leg-breaker who could extemporise on why he was removing someone's kneecaps. Knox was a career criminal with practically no rap sheet, which declared both his brains and his luck, and when Beckett and Castle met him in "Love Me Dead" he was their prime suspect for the murder of Assistant DA Jack Buckley. After all, Buckley had dragged Knox down to his office, and they'd been heard yelling at each other. Yet from the moment he sat, or rather dropped, in the chair in the interrogation room, the duo knew something wasn't right. Knox made it seem like they were guests in his home, rather than him being the pressganged visitor to the station. It turns out Knox was at an AA meeting when Buckley was killed, with his sponsor, who's
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| abstract | - John Knox (c. 1510 – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination. He was educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest. Influenced by early church reformers such as George Wishart, he joined the movement to reform the Scottish church. He was caught up in the ecclesiastical and political events that involved the murder of Cardinal Beaton in 1546 and the intervention of the regent of Scotland, Mary of Guise. He was taken prisoner by French forces the following year and exiled to England on his release in 1549. While in exile, Knox was licensed to work in the Church of England, where he quickly rose in the ranks to serve King Edward VI of England as a royal chaplain. In this position, he exerted a reforming influence on the text of the Book of Common Prayer. In England he met and married his first wife, Marjorie. When Mary Tudor ascended the throne and re-established Roman Catholicism, Knox was forced to resign his position and leave the country. Knox first moved to Geneva and then to Frankfurt. In Geneva, he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and Presbyterian polity. He created a new order of service, which was eventually adopted by the reformed church in Scotland. He left Geneva to head the English refugee church in Frankfurt but he was forced to leave over differences concerning the liturgy, thus ending his association with the Church of England. On his return to Scotland, he led the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, in partnership with the Scottish Protestant nobility. The movement may be seen as a revolution, since it led to the ousting of Mary of Guise, who governed the country in the name of her young daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. Knox helped write the new confession of faith and the ecclesiastical order for the newly created reformed church, the Kirk. He continued to serve as the religious leader of the Protestants throughout Mary's reign. In several interviews with the queen, Knox admonished her for supporting Catholic practices. Eventually, when she was imprisoned and James VI enthroned in her stead, he openly ridiculed her in sermons. He continued to preach until his final days.
- John Knox (ca. 1513 - 1572) was a Scottish religious reformer who was the leading figure in reforming the Church in Scotland in Presbyterianism. He died in Edinburgh on November 24, 1572. John Knox was ordained in the Catholic Church sometime between 1530 and 1540. He first publicly professed the Protestant faith in 1545. The immediate instrument of his actual conversion was probably George Wishart, who, after a period of banishment, returned to his native country in 1544, to perish, within two years, at the stake, as the last and most illustrious of the victims of Cardinal Beaton. While residing in the castle of St.Andrews, a stronghold and place of refuge for many Protestants, in July of 1547, the castle was seized by outside forces and John Knox became a French galley-slave for nineteen months. There he experienced hardships and miseries which are said to have permanently injured his health. Due to the troubling times in Scotland, Knox went to England in 1549 and preached the Bible until the reign of Queen Mary I (1553 to 1558, a.k.a. Bloody Mary), during which time he removed himself to Frankfort Germany. There he came under the influence of John Calvin. He eventually returned to Scotland after several years in Geneva, and began preaching against the Papal Church. He was arrested under Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland in 1560 and tried for treason, but was acquitted. He spent his remaining years preaching and lecturing in Edinburgh and St. Andrews. This article includes content from the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 1914, Vol. VI, (public domain). See here for additional biographical details in Schaff.
- John Knox was the truly scary combination of muscle and brains, a leg-breaker who could extemporise on why he was removing someone's kneecaps. Knox was a career criminal with practically no rap sheet, which declared both his brains and his luck, and when Beckett and Castle met him in "Love Me Dead" he was their prime suspect for the murder of Assistant DA Jack Buckley. After all, Buckley had dragged Knox down to his office, and they'd been heard yelling at each other. Yet from the moment he sat, or rather dropped, in the chair in the interrogation room, the duo knew something wasn't right. Knox made it seem like they were guests in his home, rather than him being the pressganged visitor to the station. It turns out Knox was at an AA meeting when Buckley was killed, with his sponsor, who's a priest. Dead end. Or maybe (K)not. Through various twists and turns, and the defrocking of DAs and priests alike, it emerges that Buckley was the organizer of a call girl ring, and Knox wasn't at his meeting. One of the call girls had embarrassing photos of the priest, and he was being blackmailed to provide the alibi. The call girl, Scarlett, turned to Beckett and, especially, Castle for help and protection, and they rescued her just as Knox was about to tie up loose ends. And again the tables revolve. Scarlett, in fact, set up the fake kidnapping to hide her own killing of Knox, who had been her partner in taking the ring away from Buckley, but had since become a liability. Knox was double-crossed, just as he had done to Buckley.
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