Fox’s book of martyrs has nothing to do with the Church of Smyrna. They were not WASPS (White Anglo Saxon Protestants). There was no Church North of the Alps at the time of the NT, the only places the NT Church existed in Europe was Italy and Greece.
**There was no Church North of the Alps at the time of the NT, the only places the NT Church existed in Europe was Italy and Greece.**
Asia minor (modern day Turkey), where all seven churches of Revelation were located, was not Greece. Acts 8 shows an Ethiopian eunuch receiving the message of Jesus Christ and the conversion he commands, who took the gospel back to his home country. Paul’s conversion happened in Damascus, Syria, where the church was already established.
And of course the church was begun in Jerusalem.