While  the  enemy  were  making  outcries  without
the  house,  the  Reformed  within  became  greatly
frightened.  The  elders  urged  them  to  become  quiet,
and  then  asked  them  whether  they  would  choose  to
stay  there  until  the  light  of  the  morning  would  make
it  safer  for  them  to  go  home,  or  whether  they  de-
sired to  fight  their  way  that  night  through  the  armed
crowd  outside,  and  thus  escape.  Many  men  reached
for  their  daggers  and  determined  to  force  their  way
out,  and  thus  many  escaped.  But  many  others,
among  them  Phillipine,  had  to  remain  behind.  And
when  the  day  dawned,  they  were  arrested.  As  they
were  led  forth,  the  crowd  fell  upon  them  and  abused
them  fearfully.  With  clothing  torn  into  shreds  and
full  of  the  mud  thrown  on  them,  they  were  led  to
prison.  In  this  terrible  prison  Phillipine  remained
a  whole  year.  Often  she  was  heard  singing  the
twenty-fifth  and  the  forty-second  psalms.  Priests
often  came  to  her  to  try  to  bring  her  back  to  the
Catholic  faith,  but  she  always  came  out  victor  in
their  attacks.  Once  one  of  them  asked  her:  "Do
you  believe  that  the  wafer  at  the  communion  is  the


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true  body  of  our  Lord  ?"  She  replied :  "How  could
He,  who  filled  heaven  and  earth,  be  contained  in  a
piece  of  bread,  which  mice  could  eat  and  cobwebs
pollute?"  Her  testimony  for  Evangelical  truth
was  so  firm  that  they  put  her  into  closer  con-
finement. Heretofore  she  had  been  permitted  to  see
her  sister,  but  after  this  she  was  sentenced  to  soli-
tary confinement.
