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THE MARTYRS OF ROERMOND
On 23 July 1572 pillaging soldiers of the Prince of Orange turned the Carthusian monastery from a peaceful oasis into a bloody inferno. Twelve monks and the secretary of the then bishop were killed. To this day, they have been remembered as the Roermond Martyrs. The book ‘De Martelaren van Roermond’ deals with this remarkable event for a wide audience considering different points of view: the motives of the murderers, the experiences of the victims, the historical context of the massacre, the history of the remembrance and veneration of the Roermond Martyrs. Added is a Dutch translation by Harry Kretzers of the standard work on the Roermond Martyrs, written by Arnoldus Havensius in 1608, as well as some other sources. A large number of illustrations offer a visual account of the time the Roermond Carthusians suffered their martyrdom and of their veneration as martyrs in Catholic Europe.