Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer ( * ca 1485/1492 in Thurcaston, Leicestershire, † October 16, 1555 in Oxford) was Bishop of Worcester and an Anglican martyrs.
Life
Latimer comes from a farming family and attended from the age of 15 Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained a reputation for his academic achievements. After graduation and ordination, he became a zealous priest. In 1510 he was made a Fellow of Clare College ( Cambridge ) and 1522 University Preachers. First, oriented his theology at Erasmus of Rotterdam, but from the mid-20s, after his encounter with Thomas Bilney, he turned to the doctrine of Martin Luther and the Reformation.
As early as 1523, there were difficulties for him, first because of its demand for an authorized translation of the Bible with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, then in 1524 by his cards sermons ( Sermons on the Card) in Cambridge, which were scandalized. After his sermons at court and his endorsement of the divorce plans of the king he received in 1531 the parish of West Kineton in Wiltshire. But his increasingly radical positions Reformation aroused more and more impetus, so that after the so-called war sermon from Bristol even had Thomas Cromwell intervene. Latimer had before the Convocation admit that he was wrong. However, when Henry VIII broke with Rome, he became a royal chaplain in 1534 and in 1535 Bishop of Worcester, as he was now trying to enforce the Reformation itself in the Convocation, in the upper house and in his diocese. Among other things he was involved in drafting the so-called " Ten Articles " and the " Bishops ' Book". In 1539, he fell out with the king, however, when he tried to prescribe by Act of Parliament in the so-called "six articles" a close Anglican dogma. He laid down the office of bishop, what had him arrested at the Tower of London, the King and then let him move to the country under ban on preaching, but with pension.
Only in 1546 there was a short time for a fresh detention. When Edward VI. However, on the occasion of the accession of an amnesty, he was set free and the House gave him even his bishopric again. This he refused, however, and instead worked successfully as a court and popular preacher. Of special importance was doing his sermon " Sermon on the plowers ", in which he thus addressed the preaching himself and his self-image. After Mary I (Mary Tudor ) ( with the nickname " the bloody " - Bloody Mary - or even " Catholic " ) had ascended the throne, it is a process in Oxford was made in 1555 before a Theological Commission. He was burned along with Nicholas Ridley at the stake. Therefore, he was honored by the Anglican Church as a martyr. With Ridley he shares the memorial of 16 October. In the Episcopal Church in the United States, Thomas Cranmer is thought that day, who was executed in the same place in March of the following year; in the Church of England Cranmer has its own Remembrance Day in March. Some of Latimer's last words were Ridley and were " Play the man, Master Ridley; on this day we will, with God's grace, such a candle in England, which may never run out! "