Near the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St. Andrews, Scotland, stands the Martyrs’ Memorial, erected in honor of three pivotal figures of the Scottish Reformation: Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart, and James Melville.

On 28 February 1638, a group of Scottish nobles and clergy gathered at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh to sign what became known as the National Covenant.

Swiss Mennonite Melchior Zahler was betrayed, arrested, and bound at the urging of a Reformed church official. His children were taken from him. His possessions were confiscated. He was transported to Bern and sentenced to exile in America.

John Chrysostom was one of the most influential Church Fathers of the fourth and fifth centuries, known for his powerful preaching and theological leadership during a pivotal era in Christian history.

 Ur, the ancient city from which God called Abram (later Abraham) in the book of Genesis, became the focus of one of the most significant archaeological excavations of the twentieth century.

For several centuries, Roman emperors often tolerated Christianity under an informal policy of limited enforcement, though believers periodically faced localized persecution.

The New Testament records that after His ascension, Jesus Christ entrusted significant spiritual authority to the apostles, establishing the foundation of the early Church.

Lettie Cowman and her husband, Charles Cowman, were pioneering missionaries to Japan and co-founders of the Oriental Missionary Society (now known as OMS International).

Eric Liddell became an international symbol of Christian conviction during the 1924 Summer Olympics when he refused to compete in a qualifying heat race scheduled on a Sunday.

Frederick Douglass is widely recognized as one of the most influential formerly enslaved leaders in American history and a powerful voice in the abolitionist movement. Though some critics have claimed that Douglass made harsh or anti-religious statements, historical context reveals a more nuanced truth.

The BBC History Magazine (British Broadcasting Corporation) compiled a list of the ten worst Brits of the last 1000 years. Thomas Arundel, former Archbishop of Canterbury, joined the likes of Jack the Ripper and King John on this list of infamy.

On February 18, 1862, during the Qing dynasty, five Catholics were executed in Guizhou Province after refusing to renounce their Christian faith.

Before the rise of the internet, information was widely distributed through radio broadcasting, a powerful tool for global communication in the twentieth century.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, commonly known as B.B. Warfield, is one of the most influential Reformed theologians of the modern age.

Living one of the most remarkable lives of the late 19th century, Lew Wallace earned distinction in American political history, military history, and Christian literature.

The story of St. Valentine has remained an enigma throughout history as there is not a clearly documented individual by that name. Instead, he seems to be the product of medieval interpretation, later memory, and intersecting stories.

William Carey is perhaps one of the most well known missionaries for his missionary work in India; however, he was not the only influential figure in the history of Christian missions in India. Christian Schwartz, a Lutheran missionary from Prussia, devoted his life to spreading Christianity in India during the eighteenth century.

Born on February 12, 1663, Cotton Mather was one of the most influential authors of the 1600s. A prominent figure in early American religious history, he is best known for his writings on the Salem Witch Trials.

Christian history, while rooted in Christ’s teachings, has been marred by the fallibility of mankind. The Spanish inquisition marked one of the darkest periods of Christian history.

Widely remembered for his violent regime and severe persecution of Christians during the 1970s, Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda, forced approximately 3,000 Ugandans to gather in a stadium in Kabale, Uganda.