Marten Goudsmid (16th century)
Marten Goudsmid (Merten Goltsmeth; official name, Martin Berchmans) of Maastricht, Dutch province of Limburg, belonged as early as 1528 to a group of opponents of the Roman Catholic Church, apparently Sacramentists later he joined the Anabaptists; in 1533 he used to receive Anabaptists in his house and read the Scriptures to them. Then his traces are lost. He probably left the Anabaptists soon after.
Bibliography
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1917): 119 (No. 105): 188.
Bax, Willem. Het Protestantisme in het Bisdom Luik I. The Hague, 1937: 75, 77, 81 f., 102, 217.
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