Luis staat niet in de Bijbel — Het betekent “Beroemd in de strijd”

Luis is not in the Bible. Neither is Luís, nor Louis, nor Ludwig, nor Lewis. The Scriptures were closed centuries before any Frank was called by this name, and the name itself is not Hebrew or Greek but Germanic: hlud, famous, joined to wig, war. A man famous in battle. That is not a Scriptural meaning. But it is not nothing either, dear friends — because the first man we can name who carried it went down into baptismal water…