Lucas de Groot Hanged, in the Year 1568

In the year 1568, a brother named Lucas de Groot, a native of Ostend, in Flanders, was arrested there for the testimony of the truth, and after he had boldly confessed his faith, and would hold to it unwaveringly, he was sentenced to be strangled and burned; but the judges afterwards changed their mind, and Lucas was hanged on the gallows, in contempt of the believers.