Adriaen Pieters and Barber Joosten

In the year 1570, a brother named Adriaen Pieters and a sister named Barber Joosten were imprisoned at Haarlem in Holland, not for any crime or heresy, but only because they sought to follow Christ in the regeneration. For this the servants of antichrist envied them, and sought by many tyrannical means to draw them away from Christ, and to make them follow their self-invented idolatry, which fights against God. But these, as giants in the faith, valiantly resisted the snares of Satan through the grace of God. And so they were condemned and sentenced to death by the rulers of darkness. Adriaen Pieters was burned, and Barber Joosten was drowned, in great steadfastness. So they both remained faithful to the Lord their God until death, and therefore by grace obtained the crown of eternal life.