From already published letters of Hungarian Protestant ministers damned to theNeapolitan galleys by a special law court at Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1675 to prominentDutch persons, from almost the galleys turns out that they called them, consequently theNetherlands as defenders of the truth belief (fides orthodoxa) who felt solidarity withfellow-Protestants (especially the Reformed ones) abroad, were ready to support them intheir struggle to preserve their religious freedom and to assist to build the Church of Godeverywhere.The article also analyses unpublished works of the Protestant ministers and theirsupporter at Venice during their slavery and after their liberation by admiral Michiel deRuyter in 1676. In these documents the same image of the Netherlands can be found butalso two more epitatheta ornantia can be observed: they called the members of the StatesGeneral, respectively the country as the nourishers of the Church and the greatestdefenders of the truth of the Gospel. ; From already published letters of Hungarian Protestant ministers damned to theNeapolitan galleys by a special law court at Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1675 to prominentDutch persons, from almost the galleys turns out that they called them, consequently theNetherlands as defenders of the truth belief (fides orthodoxa) who felt solidarity withfellow-Protestants (especially the Reformed ones) abroad, were ready to support them intheir struggle to preserve their religious freedom and to assist to build the Church of Godeverywhere.The article also analyses unpublished works of the Protestant ministers and theirsupporter at Venice during their slavery and after their liberation by admiral Michiel deRuyter in 1676. In these documents the same image of the Netherlands can be found butalso two more epitatheta ornantia can be observed: they called the members of the StatesGeneral, respectively the country as the nourishers of the Church and the greatestdefenders of the truth of the Gospel. ; From already published letters of Hungarian Protestant ...