From the Diet of Worms to the Augsburg Confession - James Aitken Wylie

Adrian of Rome, too, lived to hear of the death
of these youths. The persecutions had begun, but
Adrian's reforms had not yet commenced. The
world had seen the last of these reforms in the lurid
light that streamed from the stake in the great
square of Brussels. Adrian died on the 14th of
September of the same year, and the estimation in
which the Romans held him may be gathered from
the fact that, during the night which succeeded the
day on which he breathed his last, they adorned the
house of his physician with garlands, and wrote
over its portals this inscription – "To the savior of
his country."
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