Anabaptist Church History
Language: English

The original account

HANS SEYEL, AND HANS OF WELS, A. D. 1538.

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In the same year, 1538, on Wednesday before Christmas, Hans Seyel of Mur, and Hans of Wels, were apprehended for the faith and the divine truth, at Sandweid, in Kaernthen. After valiant steadfastness in the faith, they were condemned to death and executed with the sword; thus, even unto death, 434 boldly testifying with their blood to the way of truth, from which they would not depart as long as their eyes were open, and breath remained in their nostrils.

Original source

Thieleman J. van Braght, Martyrs’ Mirror; English translation by Joseph F. Sohm.

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Source location and archival copy

Second Part. · ENLARGED AND IMPROVED FROM VARIOUS CREDIBLE CHRONICLES, MEMOIRS, TESTIMONIES, ETC.

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