John Rogers, the first of many that were martyred during Queen Mary’s reign, was born about 1500.  He was educated at Cambridge, receiving holy orders, and was afterward chaplain to the English rectory at Antwerp, where he became acquainted with Tyndale and Coverdale, and by their aid published a complete English version of the Bible.  Removing Wittenberg, he became pastor of a Dutch congregation; but when Edward VI came to the throne, he was invited home, and made prebendary and divinity reader of St. Paul’s.  On the Sunday after Queen Mary’ accession, in a sermon at St. Paul’s, he exhorted the people to adhere to the doctrines taught in King Edward’s days, and to resist all Catholic form and dogmas.  For this he was summoned before the council, but vindicated himself so well that he was dismissed.  This not pleasing Mary, he was again summoned, and ordered to remain a prisoner in his own house; but he was soon after seized, and sent to Newgate.  He was then tried and condemned, and refusing to recant was burned, 1555.