{"id":41703,"date":"2021-06-22T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/topa.be\/st-andries\/qr-codes\/qr08\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T19:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T17:15:02","slug":"qr08","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topa.be\/en\/st-andries\/qr-codes\/qr08\/","title":{"rendered":"SAK QR08 \u2013 Monument of the Augustinian protestant martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Saint Andrew\u2019s Church<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Protestant martyrs<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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For centuries the martyrdom of the Antwerp Augustinians, which was due to their Lutheran sympathies, was celebrated only by protestant Christians. Today the Catholics have ended this silence: since 2004 their legacy has not only been remembered in some far-away place but also in their own home, here in the Catholic church of St. Andrew\u2019s, whose origins go back to the Augustinian monks. The text of the remembrance plate reads as follows:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2018Blessed are those who are persecuted in the cause of uprightness:<\/em><\/p>\n

The kingdom of Heaven is theirs.\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 (Mth. 5:10)<\/p>\n

Here the Augustinians of the Saxon Province established themselves.<\/p>\n

In 1513 these monks opened a chapel,<\/p>\n

as a starting-point for the building of a monastery and of this church.<\/p>\n

Here the first Lutheran sermon in Antwerp was held.<\/p>\n

Here lived the Augustinians Hendrik Voes and Jan van Essen<\/p>\n

who for their Lutheran sympathies<\/p>\n

were executed in Brussels on the 1st\u00a0of July 1523.<\/p>\n

In that same year the monastery<\/p>\n

was disbanded by order of Margaret of Austria.<\/p>\n

In confused and confusing times<\/p>\n

they too preached the Word of Christ\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2018Eyn Newes lied wyr heben aan<\/em>\u2026\u2018<\/p>\n

(\u2018We break into a new song\u2026\u2019, a song by Martin Luther in honour of his two fellow-brothers and martyrs).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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