Katarzyna Weiglowa

Katarzyna Weiglowa
Burning of Katarzyna Weiglowa (Malcherowa) by Jan Matejko 1859
Born
Katarzyna Zalasowska

c.1460 (1460)
Died19 April 1539 (1540) (aged 80)
Kraków
Cause of deathburned at the stake for apostasy
Other namesKatarzyna Waiglowa,
Catherine Vogel
Known forregarded by Unitarians and Jews as a martyr
SpouseMelchior Weigel
Parents
  • Stanisław Zalasowski (father)
  • widow of Melchior Weigel (mother)

Katarzyna Weiglowa (Wajglowa) (German: Katherine Weigel; given erroneously in a Polish source of 17c. as Vogel (c.1459-1539), and known in many English sources as Catherine Vogel[a]; c. 1460 – 19 April 1539) was a Polish woman who was burned at the stake for apostasy by the Polish Inquisition. She converted from Roman Catholicism to Judaism or to Judaizing nontrinitarianism,[1] and was executed in Kraków after she refused to call Jesus Christ the Son of God. She is regarded by Unitarians and Jews (among others) as a martyr.


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  1. ^ Janusz Tazbir, Reformacja w Polsce, Książka i Wiedza, Warsaw 1993, p. 15