Pieryntgen Loosvelt (d. 1573)
Pieryntgen (Pierijntje, Perinne, Printgen) (van) Loosvelt (Losveldt) (or Peeryntgen Neckers), an Anabaptist martyr, who at the age of 43 was taken prisoner at Meenen (Menin) in Flanders, Belgium, in 1572, while she was visiting a sick woman, and was burned at the stake on 6 January 1573. At no price could she be moved to betray her brethren. She was interrogated on ten points of doctrine, which she answered aptly with Biblical references. When she was led to death she said to the people, "Go and buy testaments and read in them why I am condemned to death and must die."
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Braght, Thieleman J. van. The Bloody Theatre or Martyrs' Mirror of the Defenseless Christians Who Baptized Only upon Confession of Faith and Who Suffered and Died for the Testimony of Jesus Their Saviour . . . to the Year A.D. 1660. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 962. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 169, 1147. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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