Rome decides Cranmer's fate on December 4…
December 1555 CE
Rome decides Cranmer's fate on December 4 by depriving him of the archbishopric and giving permission to the secular authorities to carry out their sentence.
Cranmer's circumstances change in his final days; this leads to several recantations.
Cranmer is taken out of Bocardo on December 11 and placed in the house of the Dean of Christ Church.
This new environment is very different from that of his two years in prison.
He is in an academic community and treated as a guest.
Approached by a Dominican friar, Juan de Villagarcia, he debates the issues of papal supremacy and purgatory.