Had to share this
On this day in 1651, Obadiah Holmes was publicly flogged in Boston for being Baptist. He refused offers from friends to pay his fine. After 30 lashes, while bleeding profusely, he told his persecutors, "You have struck me as with roses."
Ah...when Baptists had backbone.
@Jesper_Laursen I got one back farther yet, Jesper. Roger Williams was the first Baptist in the colony. He was teaching that salvation was for those who repented of their sins (ie: not infants) and they needed to be baptized in Christ. In the mid of winter Governor Bradford put him outside the fort walls with heavy snow on the ground. The Wampanoag nation took him in until Spring. Then he went to the Narragansetts and became a good friend of Chief Cannonicus my great....grandpa.
@KarMarJo57
So much amazing and fantastic history
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