“Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.” Their lives didn’t coincide much, but in their deaths, they stood side by side, perhaps the most well-known martyrdoms of the Reformation. Early on it was clear that Nicholas Ridley had one of the finest minds in England. After attending Cambridge and the Sorbonne