{"id":1326,"count":2,"description":"John Wycliffe (1320-1384) was an ordained Catholic priest and seminary professor at the University of Oxford. After his conversion to Christ, he led a movement which questioned the legitimacy of the Catholic Church, including many of its practices and teachings such as the Papacy, masses, transubstantiation,  monasticism, veneration of saints and the elite status of the clergy. He became a leading voice for evangelical Christianity in England, paving the way for the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. It is for this reason he has been called the \u201cMorning Star\u201d of the Reformation. One of his most important achievements was the translation of the Latin Vulgate into Middle English, completed in the early 1380\u2019s. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/john-wycliffe\/","name":"John Wycliffe","slug":"john-wycliffe","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}