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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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