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The burning of Thomas Cranmer, from John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1583 (Bodleian Libraries).Image: John Foxe · CC BY-SA 3.0culture · Europe
Archbishop Cranmer is burned at Oxford
Thomas Cranmer, who as Archbishop of Canterbury had led the English Reformation and written the Book of Common Prayer, was burned for heresy under the Catholic Queen Mary I. He had signed several recantations, but at the end he took them back, and by tradition he held the hand that had signed them into the flames first. The date is by the calendar then used in England.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Thomas Cranmer, martyrdom ↗
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