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Painting by Antonio Ciseri showing the Martyrdom of the Maccabees, with a central anguished figure raising arms amid fallen bodies, set against a dramatic, dark background.

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John Foxe, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, 1587; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Foxe

English Puritan preacher and author