# Thomas Hermann, And Sixty-Seven Others, A. D. 1527.

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A. D. 1527, Thomas Hermann, a minister of the
Gospel and word of God, was executed. Some
persons had been apprehended at Kitzbuehl, and,
through the tyranny of the authorities, had been
brought to apostatize from the truth. The latter
furthermore brought them into a public place before
a great multitude of people, where the others reviled
them shamefully, and said: “Ah, how finely your
teachers and pastors now give their lives for you!”
John 10:11; 1 John 3:16. Then the beforementioned
Thomas Hermann made his way through
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the people, stepped forth and boldly said: “It is
the truth which I have taught you, and I will testify
to it with my blood.” He was immediately apprehended,
tortured, sentenced to the fire, and burned.
On his way to the place of execution, he composed
and sang a hymn, which is still extant. They
could not burn his heart; hence, they threw it into
the lake which was near the place of execution.
After him sixty-seven of his fellow-believers were
executed in the same place. The judge of Kitzbuehl,
who assisted in condemning and putting to death
many of them, and who because of their faith, both
before and after, called them heretics was afterwards
suffered by God to come to such awful disgrace,
that he was himself found to be a heretic, and justly
regarded as such by all men; which nevertheless,
occurred not at all on account of the faith, but
because God permitted him to fall into such disgrace,
that he came to reproach and great infamy,
also before the world.

The vengeance of God also came upon the town-clerk
of Kitzbuehl, who had likewise been instrumental
in this shedding of innocent blood, and had
declared that he would not lay down his head in
peace until he had helped to exterminate these
people. For, as he was out riding in a sleigh in
the town, and about to make a turn, the horse threw
him against a wall, and an oak tree in the street, so
that his brains were dashed out, and thus he did not
lay down his head in peace, but came to a terrible
end, as the brethren Hans Kitzbuehl and Christian
Haring have testified concerning it.



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