# Veit Pelgrims, At Glabbeck, A. D. 1532.

1532 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: VEIT PELGRIMS, AT GLABBECK, A. D. 1532.

Source heading; not independently verified

There must by no means be omitted here the
manly and divinely confirmed steadfastness of Veit
Pelgrims, a German brother; who regarded nothing
so much as he did the salvation of his soul. Notwithstanding
the cruelty of those who follow the
footsteps of Cain, in shedding innocent blood, he
freely confessed the Gospel, and ordered his actions
and conversation in accordance with it, in all uprightness
and simplicity. But as the world, through
his holy life, was reproved of its wickedness it could
not endure it; hence he was apprehended in the
winter of A. D. 1532, at Glabbeck, in the Duchy
of Juelich. He was ready to testify with suffering
to his doctrine and life; however through the aid
of his friends and relatives he was released from
prison for this time. But as nevertheless undauntedly
walked, in holiness and godliness, in the same
heavenly way, he again fell into the hands of the
blood-thirsty, and had to suffer much from the
wicked; on the one hand, the priests and monks, by
much crafty examining, and through wiles and strategies,
sought, though in vain, to cause him to apostatize;
on the other hand, they endeavored to deter
him by severe tortures; but overcoming all these
vexations and tortures, he valiantly confirmed the
truth, and showed that above all temporal and visible
things, he had in view something higher, that is,
the eternal and heavenly riches; hence, regarding
not his own life, and esteeming it blessedness to
suffer for the name of Christ, he said with remarkable
frankness, he hoped that the sheep was now
ready and fat for the slaughter. The blood-thirsty,
seeing they could in no wise prevail upon this unconquerable
hero and soldier of Christ, resorted to
the most extreme means which cruelty could invent.
They brought it about that sentence of death was
passed upon him. The hour having come for him
to offer up his sacrifice, they (O inhuman tyranny!)
opened his left side, and poured in boiling oil.
Having then been contemptuously laid upon a sled,
he was brought to the place of execution, where he
commended his soul to God and was burned to
ashes.





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