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    1. Martyrs Mirror
    2. Vanessa Kime
    3. Hans Landis's family also suffered. Quote from Martyr's Mirror Beginning page 1120... ...ABOUT A.D. 1642 Felix Landis (the son of Hans Landis, who, A.D. 1614, was beheaded at Zurich)...was apprehended, and imprisoned in Othenbach...he was not given anything to eat for many days, so that even some criminals that were confined near him in another place, took pity on him...<and>managed to get some food to him...But when the doorkeeper perceived this, he was put into another prison. Finally, however, they gave him some food; but he was so impaired in his body...that he could not bear food any more... ...Yet in his greatest distress he was carried to church, during the sermon, where he, O dreadful inhumanity! was thrown under a bench; but he soon after gave up the ghost, which he had commended into the hands of God.<I take this to mean he was taken to a Catholic Church in order to try to convert him> His wife Adelheid Egli,, who was also imprisoned in Othenbach, was kept there almost four years...she afterwards, with a good conscience <she did not convert>, escaped from her bonds. But in the meantime the authorities had broken up their family, put out the children among strangers, and then sold house and furniture... -End Quote Here's one more... Beginning page 1121 ...A.D. 1643 An old sister, named Verena Landis, was surprised in the night in her own house, with dreadful raging and storming; in consequence of which she was so frightened that she fainted... ...when they could not get her away, she had to promise to remain a prisoner in her house, which promise she kept. But as they treated her very harshly, and provided her with very bad food, certain death ensued a short time afterwards... -End Quote I don't know her relation to Hans and Felix Landis

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