Martyrs of the Reformation

Back in late 2015 and early 2016 I wrote my history thesis and it was on the Martyrs of the Reformation or how the populace of countries ruled over by the hegemony of the Catholic Church were able to gain a vernacular version of the Christian Bible without being declared guilty of heresy and being burned at the stake.
 There were many martyrs from the late 14th century through the end of the Thirty Years' War. These martyrs included John Wyclif, Jan Hus, Martin Luther, William Tyndale, Rev. Thomas Cranmer, and so many more.
It was also a period when the Renaissance rode high in European culture, the invention of Gutenberg's  printing press, and a Revolution in thinking. It could be said the pre-Enlightenment coincided with the Renaissance and the Reformation.