Monk: “Now you will have to go into the fire; do recant.”
Weynken: “I am well content; the Lord’s will must be done.”
Monk: “This is not the will of the Lord; the will of God is your sanctification.”
The executioner said: “Mother, cleave to God and do not suffer yourself to be drawn away from him.”
In the meantime this pious heroine went alone undauntedly to the bench, and stationed herself at the stake at which she was to be burned, saying: “Is the bench firm; will I not fall?”
The executioner then made ready the ropes with which he was to strangle her. The woman took off her neckerchief or veil, and put the strap around her neck.
Then the monk exclaimed: “Mother Weynken, will you gladly die as a Christian?”
Ans. “Yes, I will.”
Ques. “Do you renounce all heresy?”
Ans. “I do.”