medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hanged, well, yes, that's how they finally died, but only after some
rather vicious torture. One of them was 90 years old. Somehow these
and the Carthusians at Castres in the same era and (apart from John
Fisher and Thomas More, perhaps Edmund Campion) the Henrician and
Elizabethan martyrs at Tyburn and other similar stories never quite make
it into the Western Civ textbooks for this period, though (rightfully
so) the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and "Bloody Mary's" Smithfield
fires never fail to be mentioned.
Dennis Martin
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Today (9. July) is the feast day of:
Martyrs of Gorkum (d. 1572) . . . nineteen religious who were hanged
by militant Calvinists at Briel . . . They were offered freedom if they
would deny Catholic teaching on the eucharist and papal primacy, but
they refused. William of Orange ordered their release and the Gorkum
magistrates opposed their arrest, but nevertheless they were hanged at a
deserted monastery.
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