Who Was Titus Brandsma?
Father Brandsma’s beatification cause opened in the Dutch Diocese of Den Bosch in 1952. It was the first process for a candidate killed by the Nazis.
Father Brandsma’s beatification cause opened in the Dutch Diocese of Den Bosch in 1952. It was the first process for a candidate killed by the Nazis.
Carmelite priest founded a magazine and became chief editor of a newspaper. He advised journalists in his native Netherlands to resist the Nazis and was later killed by the Nazis.
The journalist, mystic and saint is a fitting patron for the blogosphere.
More than 60 journalists write to Pope Francis with request, saying soon-to-be saint’s ‘journalistic works stand out among all his other activities,’ adding that ‘he gave his life for it. In our view, this makes him particularly suitable for this patronage.’
The first major biography was just published in English by Carmelite Media.
The May 15 Mass at the Vatican will now celebrate a total of 10 people the Catholic Church has recognized as saints, after miracles were confirmed to have taken place through their intercession.
St. Brandsma visited 14 editors before the Gestapo arrested him.
COMMENTARY: The lessons of August 1942 are complex.
Titus Brandsma and Charles de Foucauld both joined the communion of saints yesterday, though their journeys to canonization were just as different as their lives.
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