John Knox's house in Scotland

John Knox embraced the Reformation in the 1540s and championed the Protestant cause in Scotland. During hostilities with the French, Knox was taken prisoner and compelled to serve as a galley slave. After his release he came to England and later went to Switzerland where he encountered John Calvin. He later spent some time in the German lands and finally returned to Scotland in 1559. There he continued to preach an aggressive Calvinism and bent his energies toward the establishment of the faith and discipline of the Reformed tradition. After Knox's death in 1572, his cause ultimately triumphed in the emergence of Scottish Presbyterianism.