# Herman Jans Of Sollem, Burnt Alive For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Amsterdam, On The 16th Of February, 1553.

16th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HERMAN JANS OF SOLLEM, BURNT ALIVE FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT AMSTERDAM, ON THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1553.

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The distress of this time was very great, and did
not cease; insomuch that all who truly left the idolatrous
Roman Babel, and turned to the spiritual
Jerusalem of the peaceable church of Jesus Christ,
were forthwith declared to have forfeited their lives.

This appeared in the beginning of the year 1553,
at Amsterdam, in the case of Herman Jans, a native
of Sollem and a pious, godfearing novice, who stood
prepared to receive baptism on the confession of his
faith. Being yet in his first zeal for the divine truth,
he was apprehended by the rulers of wickedness,
and brought a prisoner to Amsterdam, where he
had to suffer much vexation and torment, inflicted
upon him for the purpose of drawing him from the
faith; but remaining immovable and steadfast, he
was sentenced to death, to be burnt as a heretic;
which sentence was publicly read to him in the
court, on the 14th day of January, 1553, and also
executed on him the same day; as appears from the
following sentence, which we, in proof of this matter,
have received from the criminal records of the
city of Amsterdam. It reads as follows:

Sentence of death of Herman Jans of Sollem.

Whereas Herman Jans, a native of Sollem, has
frequented the assemblies of the Anabaptists, received
their admonition, doctrines and errors, and
attended certain conventicles (gatherings), in which,
by Gillis of Aix-la-Chapelle, as also by others, improper
things were taught concerning the Scriptures,
so that renouncing the baptism administered
to him, he has confessed to have desired to receive
another baptism, if he should be able to attain it,
and also holds pernicious views with regard to the
holy sacrament of the altar, all of which is contrary
to the ordinances and the faith of the holy Christian
Church, and the written laws and decrees of his Imperial
Majesty, our gracious lord; and as he, moreover,
obstinately persists in his unbelief, heresy and
error, notwithstanding the instruction given him by
the truly sent; therefore, my lords the judges, having
heard the demand made by my lord the Bailiff,
concerning the aforesaid Herman Jans, together
with the confession of the latter, and having duly
regarded the circumstances of the case, condemn
said Herman Jans, pursuant to the aforesaid decrees,
to be executed with fire by the executioner,
and furthermore declare his property confiscated,
for the benefit of his Imperial Majesty, as count of
Holland. Thus pronounced and executed on the
sixteenth day of January, A. D. 1553, in the presence
of the Bailiff, Pieter Cantert and Joost Buyck,
Burgomasters, and all the Judges, by the advice of
the other two Burgomasters.

Thus extracted from the book of criminal sentences
of the city of Amsterdam, in the keeping of
the secretary there.

N. N.





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