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TIL about Thomas Cranmer, a Catholic priest who helped lead the English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He even secretly married in Germany before it was allowed. When Mary I took power, she reversed the reforms, branded him a heretic, and had him burned at the stake.

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