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Adoniram Judson
1788 – 1850 · United States / Burma
“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:14 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
America's first foreign missionary, Judson spent nearly forty years in Burma, enduring a brutal twenty-one-month imprisonment during a war he had nothing to do with. He completed a full translation of the Bible into Burmese, a language he had to learn essentially from scratch.
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