Having thus spoken, he said to the executioner: 'Proceed.' The officers of justice approached, they bound him to the pile and set it on fire. The wood crackled, the flames rose, and Alexander, his eyes upraised to heaven, exclaimed: 'O Jesus Christ, have pity on me! O Saviour, receive my soul!' He saw the glory of God; by faith he discerned Jesus in heaven, who received him into his kingdom. 'My Redeemer!' he repeated, 'O my Redeemer!' At last his voice was silent. The people wept; the executioners said to one another: 'What a strange criminal!' and even the monks asked: 'If this man is not saved, who will be?' Many beat their breasts, and said: 'A great wrong has been done to that man!' And as the spectators separated, they went away thinking: 'It is wonderful how these people suffer themselves to be burnt in defence of their faith.'[585] The Romish party having obtained this satisfaction, the political party thought only of overthrowing popery in one of the states of Germany, and of paving the way for its decline in the kingdom of St. Louis. [Footnote 551: Crespin, _Martyrologue_, fol. 111.] [Footnote 552: Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. Eccl._ i. p. 9.] [Footnote 553: Crespin, _Martyrologue_, fol. 107 verso.] [Footnote 554: The words _reform_ and _reformed_ apply especially to the religious movement in France.] [Footnote 555: Crévier, _Hist. de l'Université de Paris_ v. p. 278.] [Footnote 556: 'Hos Beda vellet incendio tradere.'—Myconius to Bullinger, _Ep. Helvet. Ref._ p. 121, 8vo.] [Footnote 557: 'Edictum, omnem qui duobus testibus convinceretur lutheranus, statim exurendum esse.'—Bucer to Blaarer, Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 558: 'Res erit non absimilis inquisitioni Hispaniæ.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 559: 'Nunc circa trecentos Parisiis jam captos.'—Bucer to Blaarer, Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 560: His letters are preserved in the Seminary at Strasburg.] [Footnote 561: 'Tum _coegit_ Bedam ut privatim cum eis congredi oporteret.'—Letter of Oswald Myconius, _Ep. Helvet. Ref._ p. 121.] [Footnote 562: 'Pessime enim nugas suas ad scripturas Dei adhibuit.'— Ibid.] [Footnote 563: 'Inscitiam suam ostendere, quod et ei cessit in magnam ignominiam.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 564: 'Beda conjectus est in carcerem, accusatus criminis læsæ majestatis.'—Cop to Bucer, Strasb. MSS. See also H. de Coste, p. 77. Schmidt, p. 106.] [Footnote 565: _Lettres de la Reine de Navarre_, i. p. 299.] [Footnote 566: 'Prorsus liberatus est theologorum calumniis, ac decreto regis absolutus.'—Cop to Bucer, Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 567: 'Quo multi commoti sunt et perturbati.'—Cop to Bucer, Strasburg MSS.] [Footnote 568: Froment, _Actes et Gestes de Genève_, p. 76.—The Mint was near the present railway station.] [Footnote 569: Crespin, _Martyrologue_, fol. 106.] [Footnote 570: Froment, _Actes et Gestes_, p. 74.] [Footnote 571: Ibid.] [Footnote 572: Froment, _Actes et Gestes_, p. 75.] [Footnote 573: Ibid. p. 74.]