Two days later, Knox’s body was laid to rest on the south side of St. Giles (at the time of this writing, under parking stall number twenty-three). From commoner to nobility, a vast crowd filled the streets of Edinburgh to pay their respects. The earl of Morton, the regent, is variously quoted as saying at his grave, “There lies one who in his life never feared the face of man.”77 As if to aid timorous Christians through the centuries, Knox’s fellow minister, Thomas Smeaton, eulogized him by pointing