Oxford was the setting for several key events of the English Reformations. A particularly tragic event took place in the Cathedral #OnThisDay in 1556: the Degradation of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Read the #thread to learn more about this sad moment in #history...
Read the #thread to learn more about this sad moment in #history...
Following 2 trials, 1 for High Treason and 1 for Heresy, Thomas Cranmer was excommunicated, and for a time was placed under house arrest here at @ChCh_Oxford. Whilst here, Cranmer dined at High Table and engaged in theological debate with scholars. But on 14th February 1556...
Cranmer was processed into the Cathedral, and a Papal Bull from Pope Paul IV was read to him in the Chancel stripping him of Holy Orders. He was then led out of the Chancel, and brought into the Cathedral Cloisters for a final humiliation where...
a group was waiting to tear off Cranmer's vestments and dress him in sackcloth. The former Archbishop was then removed from the Cathedral and taken to Bocardo prison. Cranmer would burn at the stake, in #Oxford, on March 21st 1556.
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