Thank you Vicky Beeching (Research Fellow, Writer & Broadcaster on Technology, Religion & Feminism) for reminding me today is the Feast Day of Thomas Cranmer.
I wonder how many other writers would have Cranmer's courage in burning the hand that had written a falsehood ("Fire being now put to him, he stretched out his right hand, and thrust it into the flame, and held it there a good space, before the fire came to any other part of his body; where his hand was seen of every man sensibly burning, crying with a loud voice, 'This hand hath offended.' ").
I have left the Petridis tweet on as it adds a profane accent to the sacred anniversary.
http://vickybeeching.com
http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/cranmerspeech.htm
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