Monday, January 14, 2019

Slaughter of the Sabbath Keepers of Novgorod (modern Russia)

"The accused [Sabbath-keepers] were summoned; they openly acknowledged the new faith, and defended the same.
The most eminent of them, the secretary of state, Kuritzyn, Ivan Maximow, Kassian, archimandrite of the Fury Monastery of Novgorod, were condemned to death, and burned publicly in cages, at Moscow; Dec. 17,1503."
Geschichte der Juden (Leipsig, 1873), pp.117-122
If the world hate you,
ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:18
Kuritzyn, Ivan Maximow, Kassian