This will be a short post for now, but I intend to add to it as I learn more about the man who brought the first English translation of the New Testament and a sizeable portion of the Old Testament to the English speaking peoples.
Tyndale was born to Welsh parents and lived his childhood on the Welsh borders in Gloucestershire, he was educated at Oxford but had to flee to Europe when his anti-Roman Catholic views became known about and his life was imperilled.
He famously said, “I defy the pope, and all his laws;” “If god spared my life, ere many ears I will cause a boy that drives the plough to know more of the Scripture than he (the pope).