article_snippet.sent: Janet and John Brennan bought the 15th Century fort, reputed to have been used by leader of the Scottish Protestant Reformation John Knox as a hiding place, for just £65,000.
article_snippet.sent: large living area, pictured, was formerly the great hall in the fortress, which is thought to have once housed Scottish minister John Knox .
article_snippet.sent: John Knox was a Scottish clergyman, who was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland and often considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination.
article_snippet.sent: John Knox was a Catholic deacon and priest but first joined the movement to reform the Scottish church in the early 1500s.
article_snippet.sent: John Knox then went on to teach a number of sons of Protestants who had been captured in St Andrews Castle and called on John Knox to become their minister.
article_snippet.sent: It was at this time that John Knox is believed to have used Barholm as a place of refuge.
article_snippet.sent: In 1547 John Knox was captured by the French, who attacked St Andrews Castle and was kept as a prisoner for over a year.
article_snippet.sent: On John Knox release, John Knox travelled to London, where John Knox continued to attack the Roman Catholic faith but left the UK again in 1553 when Mary I became Queen.
article_snippet.sent: When John Knox returned to Scotland, John Knox realised how much the teaching of the Reformers was spreading.
article_snippet.sent: John Knox then became one of the most well-known preachers in Scotland, with the Scottish Reformation taking place n 1560.
article_snippet.sent: John Knox is credited with helping to write the Scots Confession of Faith, one of the first formal documents of the Church of Scotland.