Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Emblem of a Faith Untouched

Boy, here's hoping I snap out of this book slump soon. It took me nearly three weeks to read this one, and it was barely 150 pages and it wasn't a slog, either, it was pretty brisk. I enjoyed it. Cranmer was a simple man who was forced to become one of King Henry's advisers when he came up with the notion that Henry shouldn't have to answer to the Pope. That was exactly what the megalomaniac wanted to hear, and while Henry was alive Cranmer did well. After Edward died, Queen Mary went after him, since he'd after all declared her mother's marriage to her father null and void and her illegitimate. Mary tried to get Cranmer to recant and declare himself a Catholic before he was burned at the stake, but he refused, bravely thrusting his hand into the fire and watching it burn before the fire consumed the rest of him.

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