And she pursued him not literally to death, not even to the grave, because there will be nothing left of him once he was burnt at the stake or else, but…
That which’s the faithful congregation we shall…
After his arrest, Cranmer was imprisoned in the tower, before being subjected to a series of show trials.
In the 14th…
The trial lasted more than 2 years. Mary was publicly humiliating the figurehead of the Protestant heretic fate. He recanted his religion six times.
Cranmer, I think, recanted because he was in a state of terrible mental confusion. He really thought he was a traitor, he really thought that by supporting Jane he had betrayed God and annoyed Mary. And with that among him, you have to realize that he was the man who was in prison, who’s lost his friends, who was surrounded by very sophisticated Catholics, telling him that he was a heretic, he was full of guilt, and loneliness, and in all that, it overwhelmed him.
Despite his recantations, he was still sentenced to death, he was 67 years old. Before he died, he was publicly shamed as a Protestant heretic. He denied the authority of the one true Catholic church, and the pope.
Let him burn. Burn all of eternity in the flame of the hell.
He was burnt at the stake in Oxford in May, 1556.
Mary would not simply let him off the hook, he had done everything that the church demanded, he had said that he was a heretic, he had said that he was sorry for being a heretic, and he still died. Even at the time, people thought it was a bad form, Catholics were embarrassed about it, and the government’s explanations which they put out for propaganda were not very convincing.
There were nearly 600 burnt in the past 3.5 years, in Mary’s reign, which was actually more than the Spanish inquisition and the French *** put together in the same period.
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