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“Many students of religion have heard of men such as Myles Coverdale, William Tyndale, even Erasmus of Rotterdam or Ulrich Zwingle. We’ve heard of them because they were ministers or scholars. But who printed their work?”

Merten De Keyser, as he was known to the Dutch, was a Frenchman born Martin Lempereur. He was a printer, due to having married into the Le Rouge family printing business in Paris with it’s well equipped print shop and state of the art equipment. Upon his father-in-law Guillame’s death he inherited the business. Merten was a Christian and a devoted one. We know this. We know this because he didn’t just publish the safe books of his day. At great cost, he published the Bible in, then unauthorized, foreign languages and books that exposed the abuses of corrupt Church leaders and systems.

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