Burges, Jean

Burges, Jean a French martyr, was a merchant in Paris; was condemned for declaiming against the mass and other popish ceremonies, and had his tongue bored through, and a hot iron rod tied or bored through one of his cheeks. He was burned at Paris in 1533. See Fox, Acts and Monuments, iv, 396.

 
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