# The Lad Cornelis Van Kulenburgh, A. D. 1552.

1552 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: THE LAD CORNELIS VAN KULENBURGH, A. D. 1552.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the year 1552, there was apprehended under
the administration of the Count of Kulenburgh, for
the testimony of Jesus, a lad called Cornelis; he was
kept imprisoned at said place about three years,
and then burnt for the truth of Christ. During his
imprisonment he was greatly assailed by priests,
monks and prelates, who were gathered in the
castle of Kulenburgh. These ministers of said Roman
antichrist laid many snares for said youth, to
entrap his soul; they inflicted severe tortures upon
him, that he should name his fellow-believers, and
then plied him again with fair promises of this
world, herein following the example of their master,
Satan, with our Savior Jesus. But this prisoner,
though young in years, yet old in the faith, through
the grace of God valiantly resisted this temptation,
on which account he was [condemned to death]257
518by said count, the latter being constrained to this
by the so-called spirituals (priests), and his desire
to remain a friend of the Pope. John 19:12. Thus
this pious youth had to pay for it; he was placed at
a stake, and while there, the priests yet came to
him, and tried to make him apostatize: but he chose
much rather to die for the name of Jesus, than to
depart from the truth, and was therefore burnt at
the stake, thus becoming a partaker of the sufferings
of Christ, for which he will be rewarded with
everlasting joy, when the great God shall be revealed.

Concerning this, see hymn in History Liedt-Boeck.





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