HANS LANGMANTEL WITH HIS MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT, A. D. 1529
Hans Langmantel, a wealthy citizen and of noble descent, during the re-establishment of the churches in Germany, received with his… Continue reading
NINE BRETHREN AND THREE SISTERS, A. D. 1528
In this year 1528, nine brethren and three sisters were apprehended at Bruck, on the Mur, in Steyermark. They were… Continue reading
THREE BRETHREN AND TWO SISTERS, A. D. 1528
A. D. 1528, Three brethren and two sisters were put in prison at Znaym, in Moravia. There was a judge… Continue reading
HANS FEIERER, WITH FIVE BRETHREN AND THREE SISTERS, A. D. 1528
About this time also Hans Feierer, a minister of the Word, and five of his brethren or fellow believers were… Continue reading
FOUR PERSONS, NAMELY, HUYBERT OP DER STRA TEN, TIJNKEN HIS WIFE, PIETER TEN HOVE, AND LIJSKEN TE LINSCHOTEN, NEAR WIT GENSTEYN LED AROUND THE GALLOWS, SCOURGED, AND BANISHED FROM THE COUNTRY, A. D. 1601
In the year of our Lord sixteen hundred and one it occurred that Johann von Steyn, Count of Witgensteyn, Lord… Continue reading
CATHARINE OF THOU, IN LORRAINE, BURNT FOR THE FAITH, AT MONTPELLIER, IN FRANCE, A. D. 1417
On the second of October, about two o’clock in the afternoon, it occurred at Montpellier, in France, that a certain… Continue reading
FIVE MEN AND THREE WOMEN BURNT AT TROYES, IN CHAMPAGNE, A. D. 1200; AND SOME EXPELLED FROM METZ
About two years after Pope Innocent III had issued those three bloody letters, for the persecution and suppression of the… Continue reading
ARNOLD, MARSILIUS, AND THEODORIC, WITH FIVE OTHER MEN, AND TWO WOMEN, BURNED ALIVE AT COLOGNE AND BONN, A. D. 1163
“In the year of our Lord 1163,” says the papistic writer Orithemius,”certain heretics of the sect called Cathari,”… Continue reading
GERARD, WITH ABOUT THIRTY OTHERS, MEN AS WELL AS WOMEN, FOR MAINTAINING THE APOS TOLICAL DOCTRINE, AT OXFORD, IN ENGLAND, ARE BRANDED IN THE FOREHEAD, SCOURGED OUT OF THE CITY, AND MISERABLY PERISH WITH COLD, A. D. .1161
It is recorded* that A. D. 1161, in the eighth year of Henry II., King of England, about thirty persons,… Continue reading
FURTHER OBSERVATIONS TOUCHING SAID FOURTEEN MARTYRS, ACCORDING TO THE ACCOUNTS OF VARIOUS PAPISTIC AND OTHER WRITERS, NOTED IN A. MELLINUS’ SECOND BOOK OF THE PERSECUTIONS, FOL. 437, COL. 3, 4
“Robert Altisidorensis states of said martyrs of Orleans, that they were of the best or chiefest laymen of Orleans, and… Continue reading