"The Reformation in England"
Archbishop Cranmer (1489-1556 A.D.) of Canterbury,
the central figure, is shown writing, as chief author, the Book of Common
Prayer.
On the left are the Tower of London, the Traitor's Gate, and flames and
smoke, the symbols of Canmer's martyrdom. The two figures, hands held,
are of Sir Thomas More and his friend, Erasmus of Rotterdam. More and
Erasmus symbolize the humanist aspect of the Reformation in which reason
was to supplant superstition in religion.
In the lower part of the window are the title page of the prayerbook and
grapes and wheat as the symbols of Communion in two kinds, urged by Cranmer.
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