# Stephen Zehender Of Byrmensdorf, In The Year 1639.

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On the 23d of September of the same year, 1639,
there was brought bound to Zurich a godfearing
brother, aged in years, named Stephen Zehender, a
member of the church at Knonow, but by descent
from Byrmensdorf. He was there imprisoned for
sixteen weeks, in iron bonds, in the convent prison,
a very damp and unwholesome place, called Othenbach,
stripped in his bonds, fed on bread and water,
and kept very hard in every respect, until he could
stand it no longer, and, impaired in body, was befallen
with severe misery according to the flesh, and
ultimately with death, after he had with a patient
and steadfast mind commended his soul unto God.
See Jer. Mang., Tract, fol. 7, B., compared with
the account of M. Meyli, fol. 6, B., num. 6.

Note.—About this time an old sister named
Catharina Grobin, lived concealed (on account of
the persecution) with her daughter, in the Knonow
Bailiwick; but the preacher of the church at Risterschwyl,
knowing this, came and wanted to apprehend
her, notwithstanding he was alone; the daughter,
however, out of filial love, wanted to save her,
but he (O what cruelty from a preacher!) gave her
such a thrust, that the pains of travail came upon
her, and she was delivered of a dead child. In the
meantime the mother escaped the hands of this ungodly
man. Tract, M. Meyli, compared with that
of Mangold, about the year 1639.



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