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Furthermore, in the year of our Lord 1417, in the town of Montpellier, Catharina Sorbea, a most steadfast woman, died for the sake of asserting the kingdom and empire of Christ against the Antichrist, having been consumed by most savage flames. But nevertheless, brothers, just as we acknowledge God as the author of that doctrine of the repurgated Gospel which we have learned, so we freely praise its excellent instruments which appeared in Germany, Switzerland, and other nations, and which, by their example and their constancy, stirred up our men to seek the truth and cast away idolatry. While they lived, we gave them thanks, and we piously and holily cherish the memory of the dead. And we ingenuously profess that we owe much to the Germans and other nations (for we do not wish to be ungrateful to any mortal) because in them appeared some men who, by their virtue, shone before us so that we might embrace the true Christ. But as to the fact that he praises those of our number who preferred to endure the extreme to preserve the love of Christ the Redeemer rather than cast away the acknowledged truth, and calls them pious, holy martyrs of Christ, and writes that they enjoy eternal happiness, in that he certainly thinks rightly, if only he were consistent with himself and agreed with some other of his associates. For those whom he here calls pious and holy, and Christ’s martyrs out of a desire to flatter you, both he and certain associates call the martyrs of the Devil in the public pulpit most insultingly. And yet he praises them in such a way that he nevertheless attributes more insult and abuse than praise to them, while he writes that they suffered for that doctrine for which they had not yet attained a fuller (he even wanted to say purer) instruction.

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