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Pieter Schoenmaker (d. 1563)Pieter Schoenmaker, an Anabaptist martyr, burned at the stake at Rijssel (Lille) in France on 16 March 1563. Pieter, a native of Eecen, Flanders, whose official name was Pieter Meynghers, son of Josse van Gheldere, was a shoemaker by trade. On 7 March 1563, a number of Mennonites of Halewijn (Halluin) were arrested including the preacher Jan de Swarte and his family, and also Pieter Schoenmaker and his wife Jacomijntgen. They were all conducted to Rijssel, and tried, sentenced, and executed there. Pieter and all the others remained steadfast except Jacomijntgen, who recanted. BibliographyBraght, Thieleman J. van. Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doops-gesinde of Weereloose Christenen, Die om 't getuygenis van Jesus haren Salighmaker geleden hebben ende gedood zijn van Christi tijd of tot desen tijd toe. Den Tweeden Druk. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, …, 1685. Part II: 299. 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: 665. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm. Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: III, 352. 
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