2 July
1489 A.D. Mr.
(Canterbury) Thomas Cranmer Born.
Thomas Cranmer (1489 to 1556)
Church of England
His life a legacy, his death an example.
Thomas Cranmer was born in Nottinghamshire,
England. He would take a leading part in preparing the Anglican church's Book
of Common Prayer, which is strongly based in scripture. As archbishop of
Canterbury, he altered the mass into the communion service, allowing the laity
to take the wine which had previously been restricted to priests. He also
turned the service into common English so that the simplest could understand
it. Under Queen Mary, Cranmer was imprisoned. Stressed by prison life, repeated
degradation, and ceaseless examinations, he broke and recanted his Protestant
views. Then he repented, renewed his stand for the Lord and his word and was
sent to the stake. There he thrust his right hand first into the fire because
it had signed the recantation, and he held it there until the flesh was
consumed, so firmly did he believe that our eternal future with Christ hinges
on our choices here.
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