Translating the Bible into English was quite a feat. It started with portions being translated by John Wycliffe in 1382 and got an amazing amount of effort from the martyred William Tyndale by 1536. But the guy who actually pulled off the complete printing of the first English translation of the Bible was Tyndale’s compatriot Myles Coverdale who died on January 20, 1569. Amazingly he survived Queen Bloody Mary’s onslaught of killing Protestants by spending time in Denmark where his brother-in-law was the bishop to the king.
