Thomas Cranmer, (1489-1556) Archbishop of Canterbury, and principally responsible for The Book of Common Prayer of 1549

                                    The General Thanksgiving BCP Pg 101 &125

We thank you 

for 

our 

cre-ation, pres-erva-tion and all the blessings of this life; 

but above all for the redemption 

of the world by our Lord 

       Jesus Christ, 

for the means of grace 

and for the hope of glory.

"Thomas Cranmer is of importance beyond the Anglican Communion because of the enormous influence of the Book of Common Prayer on the language of worship in every English-speaking denomination. In the Episcopal Church Cranmer has his own day, on March 21,the day he was burned at the stake under Queen Mary 1, ironically, the daughter of King  Henry VIII by Catherine."