Vigil Plaitner, in the Year 1529

In the year 1529, Brother Vigil Plaitner, a minister of Jesus Christ, at Scharding, in Bavaria, was condemned and executed, after great steadfastness (Matthew 24, verse 13), for the faith and the divine truth. He would depart neither to the right hand nor to the left, and did not love his life even to death (John 12, verse 25), but surrendered it for Christ, so that in the abode of the righteous above he might receive it again forever with all the saints and pious. Second Peter 3, verse 13.