# Jan Portier Burned, A. D. 1568.

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In this same year a brother named Jan Portier, a
native of Komene, in Flanders, and a fuller by trade,
who had also been Lady van Meessen’s porter, was
apprehended at Meessen. When he had confessed
his faith, he was greatly tortured; the first time
with screws; the second time, he was drawn up
high by his thumbs, with heavy iron weights attached
to his feet, and thus severely scourged; but
being ruptured, he was not put to the rack. And
when these tortures and other threats could not
move him to desist or apostatize from the truth he
had accepted and apprehended, he was finally sentenced
to be burnt. And thus he was put to death
for the testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ, with so
small a fire that the smoke suffocated him; which
took place without Meessen, at the Spring gallows,
in November 1568.



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