Christina Haring, in the Year 1533

In the year 1533, a sister named Christina Haring was arrested, taken to Kitzbuehl, and there fastened to a chain; she, however, remained steadfast in the faith. But since she was with child, and was soon to give birth, they let her go home until her child should be born; and though she knew that she would be arrested again, and might have escaped ten times, or even more, she did not flee, but boldly remained. When she saw the officer coming, she went out to meet him, and asked him what he wanted. He said,

"I have come to take you away again;" and so they again took her to the town of Kitzbuehl, where shortly afterwards she was executed with the sword (which is not usually done with a woman), for the faith, to which she steadfastly held. Her body was afterwards burned. Matthew 24, verse 13. This courageous, heroic woman, or sister in Christ, who forsook her husband, her infant, house and home, and all temporal things, strengthened her womanly heart with such valiant manliness, and by the grace of God so armed herself in the faith, that she paid her vow to the Lord, and joyfully went to meet Christ her bridegroom, with her lamp burning, and her light shining so that many were filled with astonishment. Matthew 25, verse 1.