"Many hundred thousand good-nights, dearly beloved daughter Veronica. Innocent have I come into prison, innocent have I been tortured, innocent must I die. For whoever comes into the witch prison must become a witch or be tortured until he invents something out of his head...and then came also - God in highest Heaven have mercy- the executioner, and put the thumb-screws on me, both hands bound together, so that the blood ran out at the nails and everywhere, so that for four weeks I could not use my hands, as you can see from the writing ..."
This is the beginning of the letter Johannes Junius wrote to his daughter Veronica from the Bamberg torture chamber on July 24 1628, before his execution at the hand of the Catholic Church, in the person of Bishop Gottfried Johann Georg II Fuchs von Dornheim. The letter was smuggled out of prison by one of Junius' jailers.
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