Deaf Betgen, Betgen of Ghent, and Lijsken Smits, in the Year 1560

Martyrs Mirror in Modern English

Old Book of the Martyrs Mirror: 1560s

Deaf Betgen, Betgen of Ghent, and Lijsken Smits, in the Year 1560

In the year 1560, also three imprisoned sisters, namely, Deaf Betgen, Betgen of Ghent, and Lijsken Smits, were sentenced to death and drowned in a tub, in the city of Antwerp, because they could not be turned from the truth and the love of their Savior.