John Knox, the celebrated Scotch reformer, was born in 1505, and was educated at St. Andrew’s University.  He received a priest’s orders, but renounced popery after reading the writings of St. Augustine and Jerome.  He was accused of heresy, and his public confession of faith condemned, bet he began to preach it openly from the pulpit, and reformed documents spread rapidly.  St. Andrew’s being taken by the French Fleet, he was carried to Rouen, and condemned to the galleys, where he remained nineteen months.  After his liberation, he went to England, and was made chaplain to Edward VI, having refused a bishopric.  On Mary’s accession he went to Frankfort and preached to English exiles.  Thence he went to Geneva, where he was esteemed by Calvin, to whose doctrines he was much attached.  He returned to Scotland, where he died in 1572, after rendering the Reformation triumphant in his native land.