# BROTHER JOHN BAIR, of LICHTENFELS, A. D. 1551.

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In the year 1528, on the Wednesday after All-saints-day,
Brother John Bair of Lichtenfels, was
apprehended for the faith and the divine truth, and
was confined for twenty-three years in a tower at
Bamberg, in Franconia, on account of his constancy,
as is seen from the following letter, written by him
from there to the elders of the church. It reads
thus:

“Dear brethren, I have received the writing
tablets and the account of the doctrine and faith
of our religion, as also six candles and pens; but
most important, the Bible, I did not receive, as is
written in the fore part of the tablets; but it is
my request, that you will send it to me, if it can
still be found; for I would like to have it above
all things; if it can be according to the will of God;
for I am sadly in want of it, and suffer great hunger
and thirst for the word of the Lord these many long
years. To God and his church I make this complaint;
the days of my miserable imprisonment are
twenty years, wanting eight weeks; the Wednesday
after All-saints-day will be the anniversary. I, John
Bair of Lichtenfels, the most miserable of the miserable,
and the most forsaken of the forsaken, captive
in Jesus Christ our Lord, again make the complaint
to God and his angels, and to all his laborers and
churches. Now, my most dearly beloved brethren
and sisters in the Lord, pray to God for me, that he
will deliver me from this peril and great distress, a
distress which is unspeakable; this God knows, and
I poor man, and you know it with me. Adieu.”

Written at Bamberg, in a dark dungeon, in the
year 1548.

After this writing, he remained in prison three
years longer, that is, twenty-three years in all;
when, in the year 1551, he cheerfully fell asleep
in the Lord, in his prison, and obtained the martyr’s
crown.



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