Joris Oud-Kleer-kooper (d. 1557)

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Joris Oud-Kleer-kooper was an Anabaptist martyr burned at the stake at Antwerp, Belgium on 30 January 1557, with Pieter de Backer. They faithfully suffered their cruel fate. Joris' name is found in the hymn "Aenhoort Godt, hemelsche Vader" (Hear, O God, heavenly Father), included in the Lietboecxken van den Offer des Heeren of 1563. In the official records this martyr is called Joris van Koevoorden; he was a secondhand clothes dealer.

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Braght, 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: 184.

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: 568. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.

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Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 330.


Author(s) Nanne van der Zijpp
Date Published 1957

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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 123. All rights reserved.


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