Torture and Execution of an Anabaptist Leader
Not long after their capture in 1535, the Anabaptist leaders of Münster were tortured with hot tongs before being killed. Their bodies were placed in cages and hung from a church steeple. This print shows the cage with the body of John of Leiden. He was a tailor’s apprentice from the Dutch town of Leiden. (16th-century Dutch engraving / Private Collection / Roger-Viollet, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images.)