Thomas Cranmer the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and key architect of the English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI, was burned at the stake for heresy in Oxford on March 21, 1556. becoming one of the "Marian Martyrs, despite recanting his beliefs under pressure from Mary I.
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