Bartholomeus Panten, Michiel the Widower, and Kalleken N., in the Year 1592

In the year 1592, in the month of July, there were arrested at Ghent in Flanders, for the practice of the Word of God, two brothers and a sister named Bartholomeus Panten, Michiel the widower, and Kalleken N. They suffered much temptation, and were severely examined by the priests, the Jesuits, and also by the pensionary, before whom they freely and fearlessly confessed their faith, which they held to steadfastly without departing from it. Then it happened that the sister was released from her bonds and set free. But the brothers were severely tortured, so that they would fall away from their God and inform on their fellow brothers. But God, who does not forsake His own, but keeps them as the apple of His eye, so helped them that they were able to hold steadfastly to Him and His word, and to keep their lips from bringing their neighbor into trouble. So they were finally sentenced to death as heretics, for the testimony of Jesus Christ; and after they had first been hanged on the gallows and strangled, in the Count's castle, they were then buried outside, in the gallows' field. And as they helped the Lord Jesus Christ bear His reproach, so they will also be received up with Him into His glory, full of honor and light, to live with Him forever in joy and gladness.

We have also added here, for the benefit of the reader, the letters that Bartholomeus Panten wrote in his bonds.