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Dirk Willems

Dirk Willems is remembered for rescuing his pursuer from the ice. His original account and its illustration are available in this archive.

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Dirk Willems is remembered for rescuing his pursuer from the ice. His original account and its illustration are available in this archive.

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Dirk Willems, A. D. 1569.

In the year 1569 a pious, faithful brother and follower of Jesus Christ, named Dirk Willems, was apprehended at Asperen, in Holland, and had to endure severe tyranny from the papists. But as he had founded his faith not upon the drifting sand of human commandments, but upon the…

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Dirk Willems saves his pursuer

Martyrs’ Mirror recounts how Dirk Willems turned back to rescue a pursuer who had fallen through the ice. He was recaptured and later executed.

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