A Martyr-Reformator Lived Here

Jan de Bakker (also known as Johannes Pestering) was the first martyr for the Reformation in The Netherlands. He was born in 1499 in the Dutch town of Woerden, and he died at the stake on September 15, 1525 in The Hague. You see here the State Reformed Church of the village of Woubrugge (in his days it was called Jacobswoude), where he began to preach the Reformation, refusing to continue work as a Roman Catholic priest. He had studied in Leuven, where Erasmus was his teacher, became priest in...