# Andries Langedul, Mattheus Pottebacker, And Lauwerens Van Der Leyen, A. D. 1559.

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APPREHENSION OF ANDRIES LANGEDUL.

At Antwerp three brethren, named Andries Langedul,
Mattheus Pottebacker and Lauwerens van der
Leyen, were apprehended for the truth. Andries
Langedul was apprehended at a time when a meeting
had just been held in his house for the preaching
of the word of God. Some one had spied it out,
and thus the Margrave came there just after the
congregation had dispersed, and while Andries was
sitting on his porch, reading the Bible. He arrested
him on the spot.

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His wife was confined at the time, which the
Margrave discovered when he walked towards the
chamber, and saw that the midwife had the child
on her lap; for the woman had just been delivered.
Perceiving this, the Margrave withdrew from the
chamber, but apprehended also the women who
had come to assist the woman in her distress, and
caused the lying-in woman to be guarded by some
of his servants. But the nurse, vexed at this, prevented
the apprehension of the woman, by entertaining
them very liberally, and plying them with
wine, so that the sick woman was, without their
knowledge, conducted, on planks, across a well belonging
to the two neighbors in common, and thus
went from her neighbor’s house to the house of
Christian Langedul, her husband’s brother, whose
wife was also confined at that time.

It has not come to our knowledge, on what particular
day Andries Langedul was apprehended,
but he offered up his sacrifice with Mattheus Pottebacker
and Lauwerens van der Leyen on Thursday,
November the 9th, A. D. 1559, and this not publicly,
but they were beheaded in prison, in a place
where the other prisoners, of whom there were
many at that time, could see it from the windows of
their cells.

When Andries knelt down to submit to the
sword, he folded his hands, saying: “Father, into
thy hands I commend”—but: “I commend my
spirit” was not finished, the rapid descent of the
sword preventing it. Thus all three were put to
death as lambs of Christ for the slaughter.

Lauwerens van der Leyen wrote several letters in
prison, the following of which have come to our
hands.

![Illustration from Martyrs’ Mirror](/sources/martyrs-mirror/images/i1234.jpg)

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