# Lippijntgen Stayaerts, Sijntgen Barninge, Or Lame Sijntgen, A. D. 1573.

1573 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: LIPPIJNTGEN STAYAERTS, SIJNTGEN BARNINGE, OR LAME SIJNTGEN, A. D. 1573.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the same year there were imprisoned at Ghent,
in Flanders, for the truth of the holy Gospel, Lippijntgen
Stayaerts, a native of Ghent, and Sijntgen
Barninge, called Lame Sijntgen, born at Kortrijck
in Flanders. As these had also betaken themselves
into the way of righteousness, under the banner of
their only and eternal Shepherd Christ Jesus, the
ministers of antichrist inflicted upon them the same
treatment which their Captain himself had met with,
and which he had also foretold and promised his
followers: not to be loved and highly esteemed by
the world but the very opposite, namely, hatred,
tribulation, crosses, persecution and death. Thus
it happened, after manifold trials and temptations
which they suffered for Christ’s sake, that they were
sentenced to death by the rulers of darkness, and
beheaded with the sword in the count’s castle. And
as Sijntgen was lame, she was carried upon the scaffold
in a chair, and as she held up her folded hands
rather high, a brother (named Natanael de Tollenaer,
a brother of Joost de Tollenaer) cried: “Lamb,
look out for your hands;” and so they also cut off
her two thumbs. Thus they did not love their lives
unto death, but willingly delivered up their earthly
house for the heavenly; hence there is prepared for
them a building of God, a house which, in unspeakable
glory, shall endure forever in heaven. 2 Corinthians
5:1.





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