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The First to Burn
Facing imminent death, Thomas Cranmer—the Archbishop of Canterbury who crafted the foundational Book of Common Prayer for Anglican worship—succumbed to terror and signed a document renouncing his Protestant convictions. The authorities then summoned him to St. Mary's Church in Oxford, expecting him to publicly repudiate his former beliefs and acknowledge the supremacy of Queen Mary I and papal authority.
Instead, Cranmer delivered a stunning reversal that would define his legacy: "Now I come to that which troubles my conscience more than anything that I ever did or said in my whole life, and that is that through fear of death I signed with my hand what I do not believe in my heart. When I come to the fire, this hand shall be the first to burn."
True to his word, when the flames consumed him at the stake, Cranmer deliberately thrust his right hand into the fire before any other part of his body, making his signing hand the first to face destruction.
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