Pieter van Beringen (d. 1555)
Pieter van Beringen (Pieter met den creupelen voet = Peter with the lame foot), an Anabaptist martyr, a cloth dresser, was burned at the stake on 27 August 1555 at Antwerp, Belgium. Neither the Offer des Heeren nor van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror gives the exact date or the method of execution. He was put to death with Hans Borduerwercker, Jan Droochscheerder, and Frans Sweertveger. Their names are found in hymn No.16 of the Lietboecxken: "Aenhoort Godt, hemelsche Vader" (Hear, O God, heavenly Father).
Bibliography
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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: 550. Available online at: http://www.homecomers.org/mirror/index.htm.
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Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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Date Published | 1959 |
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 172. All rights reserved.
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