Dirk Roloffszoon (d. 1539)
Dirk Roloffszoon, an Anabaptist martyr of Zutphen, was beheaded at Leeuwarden, Dutch province of Friesland, on 12 November 1539, because he had been rebaptized and had "a bad opinion of the holy sacrament of the altar."
Bibliography
Reitsma, J. Honderd Jaren uit de geschiedenis der Hervorming en der Hervormde Kerk in Friesland. Leeuwarden: H. Kuipers, 1876.
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