His tongue was then torn out by the roots, and because he still endeavored to call upon the name of God, the iron gag was again applied.

With his arms and legs fastened together behind his back, he was then hooked by the middle of his body to an iron chain, and made to swing to and fro over a slow fire till he was entirely roasted.

His life lasted almost to the end of these ingenious tortures, but his fortitude lasted as long as his life.
In the next year, Titelmann caused one Robert Ogier, of Ryssel, in Flanders, to be arrested, together with his wife and two sons.

Their crime consisted in not going to mass, and in practising private worship at home.

They confessed the offence, for they protested that they could not endure to see the profanation of their Saviour's name in the idolatrous sacraments.