# Felix Landis, With His Wife Adelheid Egli, About A. D. 1642.

c. 1642 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: FELIX LANDIS, WITH HIS WIFE ADELHEID EGLI, ABOUT A. D. 1642.

Source heading; not independently verified

Felix Landis (the son of Hans Landis, who,
A. D. 1614, was beheaded at Zurich) was a pious
and godfearing brother of the church in Horgerberg.
He was apprehended, and imprisoned in
Othenbach, in which place he was treated most unmercifully;
for he was not given anything to eat
for many days, so that even some criminals that
were confined near him in another place, took pity
on him, and with difficulty, managed to get some
food to him, through an opening between them.
But when the door-keeper perceived this, he was
put into another prison. Finally, however, they
gave him some food; but he was so impaired in his
body (through shrinking of his bowels, as it seems,
on account of having suffered hunger so long), that
he could not bear food any more, but prepared
himself for death.

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Yet in his greatest distress he was carried to
church, during the sermon, where he, O dreadful
inhumanity! was thrown under a bench; but he
soon after gave up the ghost, which he had commended
into the hands of God.

His wife Adelheid Egli, who was also imprisoned
in Othenbach, was kept there almost four years.

In that time she was treated not only unmercifully,
but also shamefully; they threw her into many
a stinking corner, stripped her twice in her bonds,
and for a time took away her clothes from her
every night; however, she afterwards, with a good
conscience, escaped from her bonds.

But in the meantime the authorities had broken
up their family, put out the children among strangers,
and then sold house and furniture, realizing
from it 5000 guilders, all of which they kept for
themselves.

However the cast out and forsaken ones comforted
themselves herein according to the words of
the apostle: “Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your
goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in
heaven a better and enduring substance.” Hebrews
10:34. Compare Jer. Mang., Tract of the year
1645, fol. 13, A. B., with M. Meyli, Tract, dated
1658, fol. 7, num. 8.

Note.—The time of the imprisonment and death
of this martyr, and of the following ones, which we
have fixed about the year 1642 and 1643, is not
really expressed in the Swiss manuscript, but is inferred
from the circumstances.





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