The Morning Star of the Reformation

Perhaps the most prominent forerunner of the Reformation, often called the Morning Star of the Reformation, was the English reformer, John Wyclif. Appearing on the scene of history a century and a half before Luther, Wyclif clearly saw the abuses and heresies of the Roman Catholic Church and strongly attacked them. He was born at an undetermined place in England about the year 1320; he died at his parish of Lutterworth in Leicestershire on the thirty-first of December, 1384. His earlier life,...