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1525 AD – Drowned for Belief in Baptism - Women Sing While Going to the River

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 1525 AD – Drowned for Belief in Baptism - Women Sing While Going to the River Published 9/5/2025 TIMESTAMPS Cold Hook: 00:00Intro: 02:02Foundation: 03:56Development: 06:28Climax/Impact: 09:00Legacy & Modern Relevance: 11:20Reflection & Call: 14:08Outro: 17:36 Metadata Package Anabaptist women chose faith over life, facing drowning for baptism convictions. In 1525, Anabaptist women faced execution for refusing infant baptism and clinging to believer’s baptism. Their deaths, often by drowning as “counter-baptism,” shook both Catholic and Protestant authorities. This story illustrates the courage that shaped later faith and inspired religious liberty. This episode explores the harrowing story of Anabaptist women martyred in the 1520s–1530s. Executed by drowning for rejecting infant baptism, these women stood firm, singing and praying as they died. Their testimonies, preserved in Martyrs Mirror and hymns like the Ausbund, reveal the tension between conscience and coercion in early Reformation Europe. We trace how these stories became central to Anabaptist identity and how their legacy speaks to today’s debates about conscience, courage, and freedom of faith. Make sure you Like, Share, Subscribe, Follow, Comment, and Review this episode and the entire COACH series. Keywords (≤200 chars) Anabaptist martyrs, Maria of Monjou, Martyrs Mirror, believer’s baptism, 1525 Reformation, women of faith, drowning executions, religious liberty, conscience, hymns Hashtags (≤100 chars) #ChurchHistory #Anabaptist #Martyrs #FaithAndConscience #COACH Description In 1525, the Reformation took a radical turn that both Catholics and Protestants found intolerable. Men and women known as Anabaptists rejected infant baptism and insisted that baptism belonged only to those who could confess faith for themselves. What seemed like a small theological dispute quickly became a matter of life and death. To refuse infant baptism was not simply to reject a church ritual; it was to break from the entire social and political fabric of Europe, where church and state were bound together. The cost was highest for those who embraced this conviction openly. Anabaptist women, often young wives and mothers, stood at the center of this controversy. For them, baptism was no longer something done to them as infants but something they chose in obedience to Christ. That choice was seen as treason against both civil authority and spiritual tradition. Drowning became a preferred method of execution for women—a grim “counter-baptism” that mocked their confession. Yet the testimonies that survive do not describe terror or despair. They describe songs. They describe prayers. They describe women who went to the riverbanks and scaffolds singing hymns that still echo today. Maria of Monjou, executed in 1552 after years of imprisonment, became one of the most remembered of these martyrs. Her hymn, preserved in the Ausbund hymnal, declared: “Oh, joyfully I will sing, and give thanks to my Lord; He has redeemed me from death, and freed me from great distress.” Their courage did not end with their deaths. The Martyrs Mirror gathered their stories, placing them alongside those of early Christians who faced lions and flames. Their hymns were preserved and sung for generations, long after their voices were silenced. These records remind us that genuine faith is not inherited by tradition or compelled by law. It must be confessed freely, lived boldly, and, if necessary, suffered for. This episode of COACH tells their story—not as distant history, but as a living challenge. What does it mean to stand by faith when everything is against you? What does it mean to confess Christ when silence would be easier? The courage of these women is not simply to be admired—it is to be considered. Their witness asks us whether our own faith is convenience or conviction, custom or confession. Make sure you Like, Share, Subscribe, Follow, Comment, and Review this episode and the entire COACH series. Script Cold Hook The water was calm that morning, but the town square was not. Crowds pressed forward to see the condemned. Soldiers tied a woman’s hands, yet her lips moved in prayer. To some, she was a criminal; to others, a saint. Her defiance was not in violence or rebellion, but in her refusal to let anyone else decide when she would be baptized. The authorities thought drowning a fitting punishment—a bitter parody of her choice to enter the water by faith. They called it a “second baptism.” She called it obedience to Christ. And as the ropes tightened, her voice rose. She sang a hymn, turning her final breath into witness. No one expected women to defy both Catholic and Protestant rulers. No one expected them to preach with their deaths. Yet in the early years of the Reformation, beginning in 1525, Anabaptist women walked into rivers and flames with a courage that startled executioners and shook the conscience of onlookers. Their story is not ...
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