Anthonis Claes, Joris Tieleman, and Hans de Backer, in the Year 1560

Martyrs Mirror in Modern English

Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1560s

Anthonis Claes, Joris Tieleman, and Hans de Backer, in the Year 1560

In the year 1560 three brothers named Anthonis Claes, Joris Tieleman, and Hans de Backer were arrested, examined, and tortured; but they held steadfastly to their faith and the truth they had learned and accepted, and so walked in the narrow path to the new Jerusalem; therefore they were condemned to death by the enemies of the truth, and drowned in a tub. But just as they had to drink in the temporal death, so eternal life will be poured out to them by God.