George Libich, and Ursula, in the Year 1544

About the year 1544, George Libich was imprisoned for the faith and the divine truth at Filleburg, near Innsbruck, a place of particular danger from evil spirits, as is well known. So this brother had much to resist, and was greatly tempted by the Evil One (First Peter 5, verse 9), who tempted him in visible form. He especially tried him in various ways during the first year. Once he came to him in the form of a maiden and wanted to embrace him. When the brother knelt down and prayed, he put something in his way, to prevent his praying. He also tried to carry him off with him, but was not able to do it. He came to him further in the form of a youth, and also in that of a soldier, trying many and various means; but when he could not accomplish anything, he went out of the tower at the top. He also told him a great deal about what was happening among the church in the country; that he had talked with such brothers, and that they had told him such and such things. But when brother George reproved him, he finally left him in peace, and attempted little with him afterward. But the enemy tempted him not only himself, but also through his children. So once there came to him one wearing the garb of a brother, and acting as one. He greeted him, saying: "The Lord be with us, my brother," and wished him peace, in order to seduce and deceive him by such craftiness. But George asked him where he came from and from whom. He answered: "From Moravia, from the church of God." Then George asked him what message he brought, and how matters stood there. He told him that the church and the brothers and sisters were utterly driven away and dispersed; that each was separated from the rest, and that it was all over with them. Then George saw that it was deception. He reproved him for his craftiness, of which he was well aware, and drove him away with earnest admonitions, which in all probability he did not soon forget. Over and above all this, when all temptation from Satan and his children was about to come to an end, a sister named Ursula Hellrigling, a beautiful young woman, who had also been arrested for the faith, was put in with him in prison, placed at George's feet, and left with him much of the time. It is easy to imagine what the devil and his seed would have liked to see. But they [these two pious witnesses of Christ] were valiant and God fearing, and could by no allurements be moved or made to fall.

This George Libich knew beforehand the day and the year when he was to be released. There were several others imprisoned near him, who were all set free on the same day, returned to the church, and afterward fell asleep in the Lord.

Sister Ursula, who was imprisoned with him, also obtained release through the providence of God, and, unharmed in her faith and conscience, returned to the church, and there fell asleep in the Lord.