Maeyken Wens was burned at the stake in Antwerp in 1573 for being baptized as an adult. Her story is told in "Martyrs Mirror," a 1660 Netherlands encyclopedia of Christian martyrs and a ...

When Anabaptists in the American colonies wanted their own, German-language copies of the "Martyrs Mirror," they turned to the Ephrata Cloister for help. Now, two copies of that rare 1748 edition are ...

There’s something about old books with handwritten information in them that makes a genealogist’s ears prick up and take notice. Recently, an email came in to your “Roots & Branches” columnist from ...

BLUFFTON — Bluffton University is holding a colloquium, “Martyrs Mirror,” at 4 p.m. Friday, April 6 in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall, Bluffton University, 1 University Drive, Bluffton.