What P. J. Twisck Has Written Concerning This

In Austria, near Passau, a great number of the Waldenses or believers were arrested for their religion and publicly burned alive in the city of Crema, holding firmly to their faith, and showing in the midst of the flames that the death and pain they suffered for the honor of God and the truth were sweet to them. Chron., page 657, column 1, from Henr. Boxh., folio 27. Phil. Marnix Tafer., folio 141.

NOTE. Immediately after the account of the martyrs noted for the year 1315, the same author speaks of their teacher, their great number, and comforting martyrdom; for, after saying that to many of them death and pain were sweet, he adds these words: "This appeared, among others, also in the case of their teacher, called Lolhard, who confessed at his trial that in the countries of Austria and Bohemia alone he could find eighty thousand persons who were one with him in religion." Chron., page 657, column 2, taken from the writers cited.

NOTE. These are the same people whose confession concerning baptism, the swearing of oaths, and other articles we have shown to agree well with that of the Anabaptists. Concerning this, see our account of the orthodox faith for the fourteenth century, year 1315, and the testimonies brought forward there.