His calmness, wisdom, and gentleness excited the admiration of all.
streets of Antwerp to the stake.html">stake, the popular emotion was at once visible.
aspect, he addressed an urgent remonstrance that they would not
however, to remain steadfast to the great truth for which he was about to
hangmen, halberdsmen, and magistrates, sang the hundred and thirtieth
he knelt upon the ground to pray, for the last time. He was, however,
the stake, and fastened a leathern strap around his throat. At this
showered upon the magistrates and soldiers, who, after a slight
into the enclosed arena, to rescue the prisoner. It was too late. The
hammer, and pierced him through and through with a poniard. Some of the
move, as if in feeble prayer, for a little time longer, until, as the
after the fire had entirely smouldered to ashes, the charred and half-
spectacle to friend and foe. It was afterwards bound to a stone and cast
preached Christianity in Antwerp. During the night an anonymous placard,
that there were men.html">men in the city.html">city who would signally avenge his murder.
The King, when he received the intelligence of the transaction, was
commanding instant vengeance to be taken upon all concerned in so foul
immediately hanged, and as the rest had effected their escape, the affair
horrible to be looked upon by Catholic or Calvinist. The prisons swarmed
The population of thriving cities, particularly in Flanders, were
criminals, but usually upon men remarkable for propriety of conduct and
senators, and council of the city of Bruges (all Catholics) humbly
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