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Adriaen Olieu (also called A. Ol, or A. du Rieu), an [[Anabaptism|Anabaptist]] martyr, was put to death in [[Armentières (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France)|Armentieres]], [[France|France]]. He came from [[Halewijn (Nord-Pas de Calais, France)|Halewijn]] (Halluin) in [[Flanders (Belgium)|Flanders]] and was "of a fitting old age." According to the<em>[[Martyrs' Mirror]]</em> he was tortured without result and in 1567 burned at the stake. [[Braght, Tieleman Jansz van (1625-1664)|Van Braght]] also lists the martyr Adriaen Ol, who was likewise executed in Armentieres in about 1569. These two names probably refer to the same martyr, the year of whose death has not yet been fully established. Adriaen was a well-known preacher <em>(leeraar) </em>in Flanders, for many years a minister in the Armentieres congregation. The martyr [[Jacob de Rore (ca. 1532-1569)|Jacob de Rore]] addressed his nineteenth letter to him. There is some question as to whether this martyr was actually an Anabaptist.
= Bibliography =
Braght, Thieleman J. van. <em>Het Bloedigh Tooneel of Martelaers Spiegel der Doopsgesinde 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</em>. Amsterdam: Hieronymus Sweerts, 1685: Part II, 345, 471-473, 475.

Braght, Thieleman J. van. <em>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.</em> Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1951: 704, 814-818. Available online at: [http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/contents.htm]

<em>Doopsgezinde Bijdragen</em> (1899): 138. Available in full electronic text at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924057361978;view=1up;seq=1058.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 297, 299.

Vos, Karel. <em>De Doopsgezinden te Antwerpen in de zestiende eeuw</em>. Reprint from <em>Bulletin de la Commission Royale de Belgique</em> 84 (1920): 359
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