LONDON – The book gave us such phrases as “till death do us part” and “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” But nearly 500 years after Archbishop Thomas Cranmer created the Book of Common Prayer, many ...

The little-known, last-minute act of courage and faith. Thomas Cranmer is mostly remembered today for his wise and beautiful crafting of The Book of Common Prayer, one of the masterpieces of the ...

On March 21, 1556, in the third year of the reign of Queen Mary, Thomas Cranmer, late archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, then sixty-seven years old, prepared to preach his last ...

On the face of it, a peculiar event for the Archbishop of Canterbury to commemorate: the day his predecessor Thomas Cranmer was dragged by a jeering crowd through the streets of Oxford to his ...

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