Cran‧mer, Thomas /ˈkrænməʳ/
(1489–1556) an English priest who was Archbishop of Canterbury, and who was one of the leaders of the reformation (=the time when many Christians in Europe left the Catholic religion and started the Protestant religion) in England. When the Catholic Mary I became Queen of England, she ordered Cranmer to be killed by being burned.

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