1022–1023 (source account) · event
The fourteen witnesses at Orleans
Martyrs’ Mirror recounts the condemnation of fourteen people at Orleans, naming Stephen as their chief figure. The account discusses accusations concerning baptism, the Lord’s Supper, and other beliefs, and records their execution in the presence of King Robert.
The heading gives the close of 1022; the opening paragraph allows 1022 or, at the latest, 1023. The following observations compare further accounts, and that second section contains the illustration of the fourteen witnesses. Both passages belong to this event.
Sources for this history: [1] [2]
References
- Fourteen persons, the chiefest of whom was called stephen, burned as heretics for the testimony of the truth, by the papists, at orleans, in france, near the close of a. d. 1022.
- 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.
