# Hans Van Der Straten, A. D. 1571.

1571 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HANS VAN DER STRATEN, A. D. 1571.

Source heading; not independently verified

Shortly after Shrove Tuesday, in the year 1571,
the Duke of Alva removed from Antwerp to Brussels,
taking with him all the prisoners, those of the
reformed as well as those of the Anabaptistic religion,
among which prisoners there were also this
Hans van der Straten, aged about thirty-one years,
born at Kortrijck, and his wife Tanneken, aged past
seventeen years, born at Mechlin. As Hans firmly
adhered to his faith and the divine truth, he was
sentenced to death, and conducted outside of Brussels
with his mouth screwed open, and there burnt
alive to ashes, about the middle of Lent, in the year
1571. But his wife, to whom he had been married
only six weeks, and who was still very young, finally,
through many vexations and tortures, apostatized
from her faith, and was put into a convent
at Breda, from whence, at a favorable opportunity,
she escaped, and went to Danswijck, where she,
after having fully repented of her apostasy, again
united with the church, and thereafter always led
a pious life until her godly death.





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