Aalst (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium)
Aalst, a town (pop. 77,360 in 2006) located in the Belgian province of East Flanders, was the seat of a Mennonite congregation for a few years about 1539, in which year Rosiane 't Kernels was executed here. The congregation was soon extinguished by persecution.
Bibliography
Verheyden, A. L. E. "La Réforme à Alost pendant le XVIe Siècle." Revue Beige de Philologie et d' Histoire XXIX (1951): 1151-62.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 1056. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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