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Barbelken Goethals, And Saerken Van Duerhove, A. D. 1570.

From Martyrs’ Mirror

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At Ghent, in Flanders, there were imprisoned for their faith, two pious sisters, named Barbelken Goethals and Saerken van Duerhove. While confined in the convent of St. Peter, they had to resist many temptations, sufferings and vexations; but adhering nevertheless steadfastly to the divine truth, they were finally sentenced to death as heretics, and, on the 21st of November, 1570, burnt without Ghent, in consequence of which they are delivered, and shall remain so forever, from the eternal and unquenchable fire of hell.

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BARBELKEN GOETHALS, AND SAERKEN VAN DUERHOVE, A. D. 1570.

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