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====Further Reading====
Oxford World's Classics publish an abridged paperback of about 388 pages, in a modern typeface. The version emphasizes executions rather than trials, debates or letters, and has illustrations from 1583.<ref>Foxe J (2009) "Foxe's Book of Martyrs", edited by King JN, Oxford University Press.</ref>
A full-length version of 3282 large pages can be downloaded free from archive.org. The version dates from 1641 but is in the old-english typeface.<ref>Foxe J (1641) "The Ecclesiasticall historie : containing the Acts and monuments of martyrs....", at https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticallh01foxe and https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticallh02foxe and https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticallh03foxe at 08 August 2018.</ref>
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*It is suggested that a combination of three unusual and significant astronomical events caused the Magi to set off on their journey. First there was a triple conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the constellation Pisces in 7 BC. Such an event occurs only every 900 years. The probable astrological significance of this event to the Magi was that a divine king would be born in Israel. Second, in 6 BC there was a massing of the three planets Mars, Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces. Such a massing only occurs every 800 years (and very much more infrequently in Pisces) and it would have confirmed to the Magi that the king to be born in Israel would be a mighty king. Third, a comet appeared in 5 BC in the east in the constellation Capricornus. In the astrology of the times a comet in the east signified a rapidly approaching event. The comet was therefore the third and final sign which caused the Magi to set off on their journey. It is shown that the probable significance of the comet in Capricornus to the Magi was also that a very great king was about to be born.
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