Sijntgen Vercoilgen, in the Year 1569

As in the time of Ishmael and Isaac, the one who was born after the flesh persecuted the one who was born after the Spirit (Galatians 4, verse 29), so it still goes in these latter days. For the ministers of the Roman antichrist imprisoned at Kortrijck, in Flanders, a God-fearing lamb of Christ named Sijntgen Vercoilgen, the mother of Jan Vercoilgen; and after many temptations she was put to death at that place, in great steadfastness, for the testimony of Jesus, in the year 1569, on the 9th of March. She had put off her womanly weakness, and in its place, by the grace of God, received through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in her heart a manly courage; and she testified and sealed the belief of the truth with her death and blood, as a memorable example to all followers of Christ.