Martyr: Collins and his Dog.

What’s In Your Bible: Martyr Collins and his Dog.

To show the corruption and drunkenness of power during the Reformation period,

here’s a story of a distraught man and why he was burned at the stake.

A man named Collins was a Student of Law in London.

He was married to an amazingly beautiful woman who decided her beauty should be shared with other men.

When Collins found out about it, he took it very hard and John Foxe recorded it as Collins “went mad.”

In other words, he was very distraught.

He went into a church, (which should be a good place to go if things aren’t going well in your head.)

He saw the priest holding up the communion wafer during the Roman Catholic Mass saying “ Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum”

(That’s where we get Hocus Pocus)

And Collins seeing this grabbed his dog and held it up like the priest.

Immediately afterwards they took them outside,

tried and sentenced him and his dog to be burned at the stake.

Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Study to Shew thyself approved unto God.

Dr. Steven A. Hite