Thomas Cranmer, July 2, 1489- March 21, 1556

The 

Lord 

is...a 

great 

King 

above 

all  
gods

The Venite

I laughed when, after getting my verse today, I saw that the feast is Thomas Cranmer. Hew was consecrated the 69th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533 and, that same year, annulled the marriage of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne Bolyn (wife #2. Of 6.) And so began the final stages of the Church IN England becoming the Church OF England, from whom we have sprung.

But I will be forever grateful for him for being primarily responsible for that amazing gem which is The Book of Common Prayer which made its first appearance in 1549 

and it’s last, or latest, for us Americans at least, 430 years later, in 1979.