John Wycliffe

This Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.

From the Prologue to the 1384 translation into vernacular English of the Vulgate Bible, by scholastic philosopher John Wycliffe and his colleagues. On May 4, 1415, The Council of Constance posthumously declared Wycliffe a heretic, and commanded his writings be burned. In 1428, by order of Pope Martin V, his corpse was exhumed from consecrated ground and cremated, his ashes scattered into the River Swift.