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NICOLAAS PIECK AND 18 COMPANION MARTYRS
FROM THE CLERGY AND CONSECRATED PERSONS OF GORINCHEM [GORKUM]

 1. NICOLAAS [CLAES] PIECK
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 23
August 1534 in Gorinchem,
Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)
2.
HIERONYMUS [JEROEN] VAN WEERT
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1522 in
Weert, Limburg (Netherlands)
3. THEODORUS [DIRK] VAN DER
EEM
 professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1499 in
Eemnes, Utrecht (Netherlands)
4.
NICASIUS VAN HEEZE
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1522 in
Heeze, Heeze-Leende,
Noord-Brabant (Netherlands)
5.
WILLEHAD VAN DENEMARKEN
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
 born: 1482 in
Schleswig-Holstein
(then in Denmark; now in Germany)
6.
GODFRIED [GOVAaRT] COART VAN MERVEL
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1512 in
Melveren, Sint-Truiden,
Limburg (Netherlands)
7. ANTONIUS [ANTOON] VAN WEERT
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
 born: 1523 in
Weert, Limburg (Netherlands)
8.
ANTONIUS [ANTOON] VAN HOORNAAR
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: ? in
Hoornaar, Molenlanden,
Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)
9. FRANCISUS [FRANS] DE ROYE
professed
priest, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1549 in
Brussels (Belgium)
 10.
PETRUS [PIETER] VAN ASSCHE
professed
religious, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1530 in
Asse, Halle-Vilvoorde (Belgium)
11. CORNELIUS VAN WIJK
professed
religious, Franciscan Friars Minor (Observants)
born: 1548 in
Wijk bij Duurstede,
Utrecht (Netherlands)
12.
JOHANNES (JAN) VAN HOORNAAR

[JOHANNES FROM KÖLN]
professed
priest, Dominicans
born: c.
1500 in Köln (Germany)
13. ADRIANUS [ADRIAAN]
Janssen VAN HILVARENBEEK
professed
priest, Premonstratensians
born: 1528 in
Hilvarenbeek,
Noord-Brabant (Netherlands)
14. JACOBUS [JAAK] LACOPS
 professed
priest, Premonstratensians
born: 1541 in
Oudenaarde,
Oost-Vlaanderen (Belgium)
15.
JOANNES [JAN]
Lenaerts VAN OISTERWIJK
professed
priest, Canons Regular of Saint Augustine
of the Congregation of Windesheim
born: 1504 in
Oisterwijk,
Noord-Brabant (Netherlands)
 16.
LEONARDUS [LENAERT] VAN VEGHEL
priest of the
archdiocese of Utrecht
born: 1527 in
‘s-Hertogenbosch,
Noord-Brabant (Netherlands)
17. NICOLAAS [CLAES] POPPEL
priest of the
diocese of Rotterdam
born: 1532 in
Weelde, Antwerpen (Belgium)
18. GODFRIED [GOVAaRT] VAN DUYNEN
 priest of the
diocese of Rotterdam
born: 1502 in
Gorinchem,
Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)
19.
ANDREAS [ANDRIES] WOUTERS
priest of the
diocese of Rotterdam
born: 1542 in
Heinenoord, Hoeksche Waard,
Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)
died: 09 July 1572
in Brielle, Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)

competent forum: Rotterdam
CCS protocol number: ---
type of cause: martyrdom
opening of diocesan inquiry:
closing of diocesan inquiry:
decree on writings:
introduction of cause:
decree
of « non cultu »:
opening of
apostolic process:
closing of apostolic process:
decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:
antepreparatory congregation:
preparatory congregation:
general congregation:
promulgation of decree on martyrdom:
beatification: 24 November 1675
canonization: 29 June 1867
information:
Heiligdom van de Martelaren van Gorcum, De Rik 5, 3232 LA Brielle, NETHERLANDS
[see
also Martyrs of the Netherlands: Daniël van Arendonk and 5 companions]
website:
www.martelarenvangorcum.nl
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