# Catharine Burned At The Stake, A. D. 1551.

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Eight days after the sacrifice of the preceding
persons, a woman named Catharine was also sentenced
to the fire. While yet in prison, she was
greatly tormented by the monks, in order to make
her apostatize, but she said: “I stand so firmly to
my faith that for it, to the honor of God, I will suffer
myself to be burned at the stake. What would
you do for your faith? not much, I think. Hence
repent, before you be brought to shame.”

Having been sentenced to be burned alive, and
on her way to death, she was saluted by a brother.
When she arrived on the scaffold, her hands were
untied at her request. She then knelt down, and
prayed fervently to God for strength, which he also
gave her; for when she had arisen, and was tied to
the stake, she boldly said: “I am put to death
for the truth’s sake; whatever you are able to
inflict upon me, I am freely ready to suffer.” A
seducer then came up, to comfort and strengthen
her, as he said, but she replied: “Be still, I am
tired of your tormenting; forbear comforting me,
and comfort yourself; for he whose name I suffer,
shall now be my comfort.”

Thereupon, calling with a firm confidence upon
God, she was burned alive in the sight of all men,
steadfastly offering up soul and body to God, as a
burnt sacrifice.



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