Mysterium Press
Cranmer
Cranmer
Hardback | 270 pages
A timid, furtive, scholar, unduly raised to aid the king’s divorce, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer lived a double life. Under the penalty of public ministry he burned within – forced to put his best years into the system which he yearned in secret to destroy, and to send back to the continent his own unlawful bride.
When freed of his old master, Cranmer was unleashed – his Calvinistic vision forced upon the mass of Englishmen. Revolts were crushed with hired artillery, shrines and churches looted (the monasteries already plundered), and images destroyed. Cranmer’s artful hand passed over the policy of the new rich which would confirm their power: the destruction of England’s founding and beloved Catholic faith.
Master historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the deceitful, suave, obeisant cleric: a betrayer of his benefactors, and the author of a novel national liturgy, who played a chief part in one of Europe’s great dramas and is a symbol of the transformation of the English mind.
This masterpiece has been out of print for a shocking 52 years. Os Justi Press is proud to be partnering with Mysterium Press of England to bring a handsome new edition of this book to American readers.