John Wycliff - The Morning of Star of Reformation: 1384 - 1324

·         John Wycliff was a scholastic philosopher, theologian, priest, reformer, biblical translator, and seminary professor at the University of Oxford. 

John Wycliffe - 1384 - 1424

·         Translated directly from the Vulgate into Middle English in 1377.

·         This earned him the title of ‘Father of English Prose’.

·         Known to have translated the entire New Testament.

·         Was called the ‘Morning Star of Reformation’ for he set out the Lollards Movement in England from the 14^th to 16^th Century.

·         It was a protestant movement against the Orthodox Catholic Church.

·         Sir John Oldcastle was the English Lollard leader.

Lollards Movement 14th - 16th century

    John Wycliff propagated seeking religion only through the Bible and not through any middlemen i.e. the so-called corrupt priests.

           Along with the Lollards (poor priests, John          Wycliff set them to spread the teachings all and       across.)

          

      However the Lollards Movement failed because of a lack of printing facilities and literacy in the 14^th century, which curbed the widespread dissemination of the word.

The title that Wycliff received, ‘The Morning Star of Reformation’ has a beautiful analogy to it. 400 years later, another reformer, Martin Luther rose in the 17^th century and successfully took up the baton of propagating Wycliff’s lost cause of Reformation. 

Martin Luther 1483 - 1526

John Wycliffe has been called “The Morning Star of the Reformation.” The morning star is not actually a star, 

but the planet Venus, which appears before the sun rises and while darkness still dominates the horizon. The morning star is unmistakably visible.

So here, it can be inferred that Wycliff was planet Venus,        which appears and signals the dawn, Martin Luther was the arrival or the break of the day where the whole world was enlightened with the Protestant beliefs.

Sources:

1.       World Literature in Your Fist by Prem Shankar Pandey.

2.       https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-morning-star-of-the-reformation#:~:text=John%20Wycliffe%20has%20been%20called,morning%20star%20is%20unmistakably%20visible.