Jacob Platser, in the Year 1591

In this year 1591, on the nineteenth day of August, the brother Jacob Platser, a locksmith, was arrested at Silgen, in the Pusterthal, in the earldom of Tyrol, and remained in bonds and imprisonment about eight weeks, until the fifteenth day of October. When they could not accomplish their purposes with him, and he would in no way renounce what God had made known to him, or depart from the truth, he was, in accordance with the imperial mandate, sentenced to the sword. He was then led out to the place of execution, where he offered up his prayer to God, in which he was of good cheer to die for the sake of His truth and the faith. The executioner then beheaded him, and afterward buried him. So he testified valiantly, until death, to the Word of God and the true faith, for which God gave him His grace and power.