Reyer Dirks (d. 1550)
Reyer Dirks, an Anabaptist martyr, a skipper by trade. Having been a member of the Anabaptist group for three years he was executed at Amsterdam on 16 August 1550, after "terrible torture."
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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: 502. 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. 313. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
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