Felix Landis, with his Wife Adelheid Egli, in the Year 1642

Felix Landis (the son of Hans Landis, who in the year 1614 was beheaded at Zurich) was a pious and God-fearing brother of the church in Horgerberg. He was arrested and imprisoned in Othenbach, where he was treated most unmercifully; for he was given nothing to eat for many days, so that even some criminals who 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 doorkeeper noticed this, he was put into another prison. Finally, however, they gave him some food; but he was so broken down in his body (through a shrinking of his bowels, as it seems, from having suffered hunger so long) that he could not bear food any longer, but prepared himself for death.

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 afterwards gave up his spirit, 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.

During that time she was treated not only unmercifully, but also shamefully; they threw her into many a stinking corner, stripped her twice while she was in her bonds, and for a time took her clothes away 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, placed the children among strangers, and then sold house and furniture, getting 5,000 guilders from it, all of which they kept for themselves.

However, the cast-out and forsaken ones comforted themselves in this, according to the words of the apostle: "You took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and enduring substance." Hebrews 10, verse 34. Compare Jer. Mang., Tract of the year 1645, folio 13, A. B., with M. Meyli, Tract, dated 1658, folio 7, number 8.

NOTE. The time of the imprisonment and death of this martyr, and of the ones that follow, which we have fixed at about the year 1642 and 1643, is not actually stated in the Swiss manuscript, but is inferred from the circumstances.