# Susanneken And Kalleken Claes, A. D. 1573.

1573 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: SUSANNEKEN AND KALLEKEN CLAES, A. D. 1573.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the year 1573, at Ghent, in Flanders, there
were also apprehended, for following Christ, two
sisters, young maidens, named Susanneken and
Kalleken Claes, or Draeyaerts, the former aged
about twenty-six, and the other about twenty-four
years. While imprisoned in the Saucelet, the city
prison, they had to suffer many entreaties and
afflictions from the enemies of the truth, in all of
which they steadfastly adhered to their only Shepherd,
Lord, and the Author of their faith, to help
them bear his bloody banner, his cross, and reproach,
and, as courageous heroines, to strive valiantly
unto death, which they had to taste for his
name; for as they remained steadfast, and would in
no wise depart from the divine truth, nor from the
true faith, upon which they, according to Christ’s
ordinance, had received baptism, they were finally
sentenced to death as heretics, and, on the 4th of
December of the aforesaid year, and with balls tied
into their mouths, to prevent them from speaking
or confessing with their mouths the cause of their
innocent, fearless, voluntary, and God-pleasing
death and sacrifice, they were brought into the Friday
Market, and there publicly burned at the stake,
going thus with burning lamps, and the oil of love
in their vessels, to meet their Forerunner and Bridegroom,
who will let them in, as wise virgins, to his
marriage, when the foolish shall knock and not be
heard, and, with too late repentance and sorrow of
heart, shall have to remain excluded.





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