“… I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held” (Revelation 6:8).

Sunday, April 22, 2007

THE BLOODY THEATER

DEFENSELESS CHRISTIANS
Who Baptized Only Upon Confession of Faith, and Who Suffered and
Died for the Testimony of Jesus, Their Saviour, From the Time of Christ
to the Year A.D. 1660
COMPILED FROM VARIOUS AUTHENTIC CHRONICLES,
MEMORIALS, AND TESTIMONIES, BY
THIELEMAN J. van BRAGHT

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well written article.

Christian said...

Thank you, but I dare not take credit. All text, with the exception of the occasional insertion of Scripture, is exclusively excerpted from the “Martyrs Mirror,” compiled by from various authentic chronicles, memorials and testimonies.

It is so humbling to be in the presence of “so great a cloud of witnesses,” our brothers and sisters in the faith who persevered through sufferings and death of a nature we can not imagine.

Jan Luiken, in one engraving, captures a particularly poignant moment. Against a background where a cross adorns every tower, spire, and steeple, two solitary figures search among the still warm ashes for the screw that muted their mother’s final witness. A scrap of metal now precious; both a remembrance and a testimony.

http://martyrsmirror.blogspot.com/2007/08/maeyken-wens-ad-1573.html