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Liège (Liège, Belgium)Liège (Liége before 1946; Dutch, Luik) is a city in Belgium (1949 pop.156,200; 2004 pop. 187,000), where some Anabaptists were found in the 16th century. Wilhelm Stupman (Mottencop) from Aachen, Germany, is said to have founded an Anabaptist congregation here in 1533. Of this congregation, however, almost nothing is known. Two "Lutheran" (i.e., heretical) women, who in 1541 were thrown from Pont des Arches (arched Bridge) into the Meuse River, were apparently Anabaptists. Their names are unknown. In 1570 a Mennonite woman, Lyntgen Kernels, suffered martyrdom at Liège, but there is no evidence of a congregation there at that time. BibliographyBax, Willem. Het protestantisme in het bisdom Luik en vooral te Maastricht. s-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, 1937-1941: I, 74, 163; II, 313. Halkin, H. E. Le Réforme en Belgique sous Charles-Quint. Brussels, n.d.-1957: 53, 81, 83, 84 f. 
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Scottdale, Pennsylvania, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 341. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website. ©1996-2008 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved. To cite this page:MLA style: van der Zijpp, Nanne. "Liège (Liège, Belgium)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 May 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/liege_liege_belgium> APA style: van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1957). "Liège (Liège, Belgium)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 15 May 2008 <http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/liege_liege_belgium> Document Actions |
