Pieter van Oosthove, in the Year 1564

Pieter Floriss, called of Oosthove, a native of Nipkerke in Flanders, was arrested for the divine truth at Armentiers in the year 1564, and through many solicitations and sufferings he was prevailed upon to fall away from his faith, induced by the promise that he would not die, and would be released. But when he was in his prison again, and came to himself, he considered how greatly he had let himself be deceived; for though he might escape temporal death for a little while, he would therefore have to taste eternal death. This produced in him such an agonizing sorrow that he, like Peter, turned with earnest supplication to Almighty God, and begged Him with scalding tears for forgiveness for the great offense he had committed, and for a more steadfast mind than he had shown before. His prayer was not left unheard, for when he was brought before the authorities again, he utterly renounced his falling away, and from then on boldly confessed his faith, and steadfastly held to it, so that he was finally sentenced to death, to which he went with glad constancy, and was thus strangled and burned.