What Transpired with the Christians During the Fourth Persecution

This persecution caused an unexpected and terrible plague, which devastated countries and inhabitants, especially Italy, so that the Christians were forgotten; for there were villages that had been ravaged to such an extent that they became entirely depopulated, and lay there waste and without inhabitants. Keyser's Chronijk, van Christi Geboorte tot op Carolus the Fifth, printed in the year 1563, folio 17, column 1, for the year of the beginning of this persecution, 164.